etermining what a person tries to achieve and how much effort they will put into their performance. In the case of the scenario, each of the individuals had to give complete thought to was about to happen. Once the thinking process was complete, then they can alter their decision to reflect their thinking. For example, the woman first thoughts were that she knew she had been raised in a catholic family. With that in her thinking process, she probably would have altered her thinking in way to try and convince him that he needed to get a condom. The relationship between the concepts comes from the fact that SCT has a strong emphasis on one's cognition. Since all of these concepts derives from one's cognition, if one occurs it is likely that the individual will undergo all of the concepts when trying to predict the behavior. SCT suggests that the mind is an active force that construct one's reality, selectively encodes information, performs behavior on the basis of values and expectations, and imposes structure on its own actions. Through feedback and reciprocity, a person's own reality is formed by the interaction of the environment and one's cognition. In addition, cognitons change over time as a function of maturation and experience (i.e. attention span, memory, and reasoning skills). It is through an understanding of the processes involved in one's construction of reality that enables human behavior to be understood, predicted and changed. The SCT predicts that an individual's behavior is uniquely determined by reciprocal interaction of personal factors, behavior, and the environment. Although the SCT upholds the behaviorist notion that response consequences mediate behavior, it contends that behavior is largely regulated antecedently through cognitive processes. Therefore, response consequences of a behavior are used to form expectations of behavioral outcomes according to the SCT. It is the ability to form these expecta...
