PSY 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Bandura, Bobo Doll Experiment

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 011
• Professor: Pineno

Document Summary

In behavioral psychology, we punish behaviors, not people. It is quite dif cult for people to understand the difference between punishing a behavior and the person exhibiting the behavior, as the line that divides the difference between them is thin. May be a component in a behavior modi cation schedule. Punishment sometimes is seen as controversial, so it is used as a last resort after attempts at other forms of behavior modi cation have failed. How punishment works: a behavior occurs, a consequence makes itself evident, this consequence leads the behavior to be less likely to occur or to express itself in the future. Types of punishment: positive punishment: an aversive stimulus is added after the target behavior presents itself negative punishment: a pleasant/appetitive stimulus is taken away once the target behavior presents itself punisher: any stimulus that lessons a behavior. May operate on the premack principle, where an aversive activity may be a punisher for a certain undesirable behavior.