need some datas to be able to answer those questions.
Compare mechanistic and reciprocal interactionism. Give an example of reciprocal interactionism (influences among a person, a situation, and a behavior). Provide an example of mechanistic interactionism (a trait, a situation, and the relationship between a situation and trait). Do you support one view over the other? Why?
Rose, I'm sure that your text will provide your best information.
Ms. Sue,
I really need help I need some more informations. what's in the text is not clear for me.
I'm not sure you'll find anything more useful -- but check these sites.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=mechanistic+and+reciprocal+interactionism.+
Ms. Sue I need the definition, what you sent me is not helping
Rose -- if you copy the definition given in your text, I'll try to help you understand it.
While mechanistic interactionism partitions the variance in behavior into that accounted
for by persons, situations, and their interactions, reciprocal interactionism conceives of a
more fluid and complex pattern in which person, situation, and behavior continually and
reciprocally influence one another (Endler, 1983).
Your text does have a complex way of stating something fairly simple.
Mechanistic interactionism is a rigid interpretation of the many varieties of human behavior. For instance, if a person is uptight about having a very clean house and continually cleans, a mechanistic interactionalism interpretation may say that that the person is obsessive compulsive.
Reciprocal interactionism is a looser interpretation of human behavior. For instance this person who is uptight about having a very clean house may be perceived as having many issues about a clean house. S/he may come from a very neat and clean family and been taught to be extremely clean. S/he may be afraid of germs. S/he may be insecure and feel s/he is judged to the cleaniness of her house. Of -- maybe like my daugher in this week before her daughter's wedding, may just be preparing for a party for 20 people and be cleaning areas that haven't been cleaned for a long time.
thanks a lot Ms. Sue, have a good night.
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I just wanted to follow-up to this question and answer. The textbook for ths class is still the same, and is one of the worst textbooks I have ever read. The person who wrote it seems to have written it just to see how much of a prig he could sound like. It's very difficult to read, and I am fairly sure that the information I do absorb will be from what I locate on the internet, not from what I manage to decipher from this textbook.
Ms. Sue, thanks for some clarification on the meaning.