CRIM 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Social Learning Theory, Albert Bandura
18 Jan 2020
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The power of the crowd: psychological process theories. Major influences: gustav le bon"s work on crowd behaviour and mob psychology (i. e. , anonymity, contagion, & suggestibility, garbriel tarde"s laws of imitation (close contact, superior imitation, & insertion) Humans are blank slates (i. e. , tabula rasa) and behaviour is determined by environment and situational factors. Believe that society is characterized by considerable conflict over the definition of crime and criminal law. Explains group crime like genocide, massacres, riots, hooliganism, and police brutality. Influenced by earlier theories of learning especially yale school and frustration- aggression hypothesis. Modeling, imitation, observational learning all mean the same thing: can be live, verbal, or symbolic. Reinforcement more important to understanding behaviour than punishment. Moral disengagement in four easy steps: dehumanize the victims, minimize sense of direct link (diffusion and displacement of responsibility, redefine act as honorable (moral justification, ignore, distort or minimize the harm. Self-serving bias refers to tendency of people to think that they are above average.
