There are three factors that control behavior at any particular time:

1. Environment
1. Physical / Natural
2. Social / Legal / Mores
2. Experience
3. Autonomy

These factors decrease in importance as you go from environmental factors to personal autonomy. While an individual's behavior will ultimately be chosen by the individual, it will be within the constraints of the above with the exception of the social environment.

Environment

Environment is subdivided into two categories, with the physical environment being the ultimate controller of behavior, and the social environment being a secondary controller for all but those who reject such control.

The physical environment is the controller of behavior as it defines what an individual can actually do, rather then just imagine about. A person can not run at 100 miles per hour or fly their arms around, though they can imagine such a thing. The mind and the mental processes have no power if the body is physically unable to act in a certain way.

The social environment is far less a controller of behavior in the strict sense of the word. An individual can choose to act in a matter contrary to laws and social mores, though they will likely be punished for such an act. Experiencing this punishment first-hand or through symbolic communication will act as negative reinforcer that will prevent or discourage behavior of this form. Additionally, acting in contrary to the social environment will likely lead to a physical environment being applied upon the individual. This could be anything from a police officer restraining an individual to placing him in jail.

Experience

Experience is the combination of all things experienced, learned, or cognated by an individual that allows the individual to understand the world around him. It is not only first hand, but also caused by experience gained through symbolic communication, such as talking to friends or witnessing a story on the news.

Experience defines all, as it gives a context for understanding all of the stimuli currently around us. Grass is green, only because we learned in Kindergarten to say that things that appear that color to be green. If experience is destroyed through a major rapid change in an individual's life, then behavior might be unpredictable as the individual tries to experience the new environment. Rural people often find that city folk do not understand or understand the mores wrong about the rural life.

Experience can't control what you can physically do or what society will find socially acceptable. Individuals can only perceive a physical environment in the short-term, though environmental change is possible through a consorted effort of the individual over the long-term. Individuals can use their experience to work towards to changing their environment, but significant change is impossible with the substantial technological and social barriers to complete change.

Autonomy

Every individual is their own master, and ultimately controls their behavior within both environmental and experiential barriers. The individual can choose to either drive over the speed limit or to drive safely. The prior would violate the social environment, and constant violations would inevitably lead to punishment and negative experience that discourages further behavior of this fashion. Physical constraints like losing their keys from their parents might also apply.

That individual would not be able to go 120 miles per hour on State Street in Downtown Albany. The individual might want to do that, but it would be a physically impossible to such a thing as it currently stands. The individual could work to have that changed, by having State Street into a drag strip, but it's unlikely to happen for practical considerations.

The immediate behavior of an individual is defined by autonomy, and limited by environment and previous experience. But more importantly is how an individual can control his body to create change that will change the environment to more to his liking. He could stop trying to race down State Street, and find a rural highway or an existing drag strip. He could try lobbying for change as previously mentioned, but that would be almost impossible to accomplish.