Leticia failed to ride her bike up the hill with her friends.She later asked her father to remove the training wheels from her bike so that she would no longer feel embarrassed.This is an example of which part of social-cognitive theory?

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Reciprocal determinism refers to the interplay between the individual, the environment, and behavior. In this case, Leticia's decision to ask her father to remove the training wheels (behavior) was influenced by her previous experience (environment) of struggling to ride up the hill and feeling embarrassed (person component).

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