PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: American Psychological Association, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis
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The effect of this tradition has been to increase the reinforcements occurring to the more powerful at the expense of those occurring to the less powerful. Constitutions, bills of rights, and related political documents of modern states can be viewed as formal specifications of contingencies designed to control the behaviour of those who control the behaviors of others. In western democracies we have moved from the era of the divine right of monarchs to one of. Government by law ; with the introduction of periodic popular elections, people who are controlled by those who make the laws can exert a certain measure of reciprocal control. In socialist & communist countries, the revolutionary process concentrated on eliminating economic abuses. B/c of cultural history & b/c of people"s personal experiences with others who have abused their power, people have learned to react negatively to overt attempts to manage behavior.
