Half way down the alley, the avoidance tendency becomes equal to the approach tendency, and even closer to the goal the avoidance tendency is stronger than the approach tendency. What the rat does is vacillate, walking toward the goal until the avoidance tendency gets dominant, and then walking away and back towards the start box until the approach tendency becomes dominant. Then turning around and going toward the goal, then turning around again and going back toward the start, over and over again. To construe the events of experience and give them meaning. One-sided interactionism, where the emphasis is on the interaction of situational and personal causes of behavior.
Reciprocal determinism involves multidirectional influences.
This means that behavior can also affect both the environment and personality. Mischel's list of CORE cognitive processes. Cognitive and behavioral construction competencies. Subjective stimulus value. Encoding strategies and personal constructs.