PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Victimology, Fundamental Attribution Error, Expectancy Theory
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Chapter 4 origins of criminal behavior: learning and situational factors. There are 3 major types of learning: classical or pavlovian conditioning, instrumental learning or operant condition and social learning. Instrumental learning is based on learning the consequences of behavior. Social learning is the most representative of contemporary psych enables us to i(cid:374)teg(cid:396)ate k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:448)a(cid:396)ied aspe(cid:272)ts of a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d to consider the cognitive environment. Viole(cid:374)t (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)es like agg(cid:396)a(cid:448)ated assault a(cid:374)d ho(cid:373)i(cid:272)ide a(cid:396)e so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es (cid:272)alled (cid:862)i(cid:396)(cid:396)atio(cid:374)al(cid:863), (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olla(cid:271)le(cid:863), (cid:862)(cid:373)oti(cid:448)eless(cid:863) (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) (cid:396)eality they a(cid:396)e ofte(cid:374) pla(cid:374)(cid:374)ed. Officially began in 1919 by john b. watson. Cognitive processes are those internal mental processes that enable humans to imagine, to gain knowledge, to reason and to evaluate information. A stimulus is a person, object or event that elicits behavior. Believed that environmental or external stimuli are the primary determinants of all behavior, both animal and human. The environmental stimuli become independent variables, and the behaviors they elicit the dependent variables.
