How could Bandura explain functional autonomy?
What will be an ideal response?
According to Allport, functional autonomy occurs when a behavior continues even after the original motivation for it is removed. Bandura could explain this through his concept of self-regulation. The primary idea of self-regulation is that we control our own behavior, just as Allport implied in functional autonomy. According to Bandura, self-regulation takes place in three steps: self-observation, self-judgment and self-reaction. An example of this in the case is when Grace observed her scrapbooking behavior (self-observation), noticed that she actually liked it (self-judgment) and continued the behavior even after her scrapbooking group disbanded (self-reaction). The self-observation and self-judgment allow the behavior to continue even after extrinsic rewards for it were removed, which is very similar to the definition of functional autonomy.
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