You are the nurse in a small town and are a member of a workgroup designing a multilevel intervention to decrease the violence in the community.

The group would like to use a theory that comprehensively assesses the health needs of the community but also serves as a guide to develop and evaluate the intervention.
What model would you recommend the group use?

Social cognitive theory emphasizes that people learn by observing others, with the environment, behavior, and cognition acting as primary factors that influence development in a reciprocal manner.

A major component of the theory is observational learning: the process of learning desirable and undesirable behaviors by observing others, then reproducing learned behaviors in order to maximize rewards.

Choice A is not the answer because human behavior is not only shaped by reoccurring patterns of activity that take place in a structured environment.

Choice C is not the answer because communication and information processing are not the only central roles in social cognitive theory.

Choice D is not the answer because social cognitive theory does not focus solely on the health of a person, not the disease.

The psychomotor domain involves physical movement and coordination.

Evaluating learning in the psychomotor domain would involve observing the participant’s ability to perform a physical task, such as palpating their pulse and correctly counting it.

Choice B is not the correct answer because describing how to check blood pressure involves cognitive knowledge rather than physical movement or coordination.

Choice C is not the correct answer because differentiating between two different types of vitamins involves cognitive knowledge rather than physical movement or coordination.

Choice D is not the correct answer because verbally stating the reasons for checking heart rate before taking medication involves cognitive knowledge rather than physical movement or coordination.