Factors that influence behavioural change

1.It is difficult to understand all factors related to behavioural change.

2.The diagram below may be useful tool to understand the dynamics affecting a person's behaviour in a soecific psychological environment.

3.A person's psychological environment situation includes the person,his environment,his need,his goas,the barriers to his goals and their dynamic interrelationships.It is important to note that in the field of psychology---the meaning of all its constructs are mutually interdependent.Each depends for its meaning upon the meanings of all others

PERSON : A purposive behaving self; acting in ways to achieve his goal.

LIFE SPACE : Represents all factors that influence behaviour at a given time,it is the person's psychological world.

FOREIGN HULL : Is the physical and social environment that is not psychological.

PSYCHOLOGICAL : Aspects of experience that are dear to person,environment includes motor-perceptual stratum and
interpersonal stratum.

INTER-PERSONALSTRATUM : Represents the person's need.

MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL : Represents the cognitive and psychomotor sklls stratum of a person.

NEED : State of a person that affects a person's behaviour towards a goal.

VECTOR : Psychological movement toward or away from a gol,which is driving or restraining forces.

GOAL : Region of lfe space,toward or away from,which a peson is psychological drawn.

BARRIER : Part of the environment that stands in the way of goal achievement.