ABSTRACT
The concept of control psychology, when it started with the early contributions of J.B.Rotter in the fifties, was strongly related to behavioural theoretical assumptions integrating cognitive constructs such as “expectancies” or “internal versus external locus of control reinforcement.” Empirical research on the development of expectancies for internal and external control of reinforcement under natural conditions proved difficult; nevertheless theoretical assumptions dealt with learning of expectations under natural conditions, as did the contribution on social learning theory by Bandura (1973), or Mischel (1973).
