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remain beyond conscious experience are not merely hypothetical, though, as they can be measured indirectly, understood in terms of E. C. Tolman’s (1938) intervening variable.
Figure 1. Central premise of the person-environment integrative-transactional framework
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The second important assumption is that bi-directional relationships between the three elements result in a range of various mental states, which are discussed below. While they are separate concepts they may all be generally fit into the classic concept of attitude defined as ‘[an] individual's propensity to evaluate a particular entity with some degree of favourability or unfavourability’ (Eagly, Chaiken, 2007), which is the point of view popular also among other scholars (e.g. Aronson et al., 148