For those synapses, the high blood sugar is the same as if you were the Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Michael Phelps (synapse) and your lane had filled with Jell-OÂ®, causing you not to be able to reach your full potential.
For this reason, social-cognitive theorists have devoted extensive effort to identifying the mechanisms of personality that either foster or inhibit change. According to Schwarz (2001), the social cognitive theory of personality considers change to be comprised of two distinct processes that must be deployed in stages.
Individual Level Theories. Individual Level Theories Theories used at the individual level include: Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) (chapter four), Health Belief Model (chapter three) and Social Cognitive Theory (chapter eight). The Integrative Behavioral Model (IBM) has been recently introduced to bring these theories together and apply them to the context of explaining media effects on marijuana use and sexual behavior.