CRI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Learning Theory, Edwin Sutherland, Tabula Rasa
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Basic psychological approaches to learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, imitation. Pavlov and his dog: unconditioned stimulus (us): food, unconditioned response (ur): salivation, conditioned stimulus (cs): bell, conditioned response (cr): salivation. Behavior modification: positive reinforcements to increase behavior. Food, praise, $ reward: negative reinforcement to increase behavior. Remove electric shock, free from cage, stop nagging parent: punishment to decrease behavior. Albert bandura and the bobo doll experiment. 72 children: 24 aggressive role model female model. 6 girls: 24 non aggressive role model female model. 6 girls: 24 control group no models. Children who observed the aggressive model made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the non-aggressive or control group. Deterrence theories: in absence of controls, humans are free to commit crimes. Biological theories: humans are basically social, complaint beings, only committing crimes when biological defects are present. Learning theories: humans are blank slates, gathering and learning from experienced and other people; passive; tabula rasa.
