PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Differential Association, Reinforcement, Behavioral Engineering
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Ch 4- origins of criminal behavior: learning & situational fators. Leads to an indivs development of his/her own percpetions, thought, expectancies, competencies, and values. Watson believed psych should eliminate the mind & all of its related vague concepts from scientific consideration bs they count be observed/measured. Bell cs salivation to bell cr. Watsom believed that psych should focus exclusively on the interplay btn stimulus & response: stimulus: person, object, or event that elicits beh, response: elicited beh. B,f skinner esp dominated the application of beh modification or beh therapy in the correctional system & in many insitutions for the intellectually disabled/mentally disordered. Skinner embraced the view that humans differ only in degree from their animal ancestry: the beh of humans follows the same basic natural laws as that of all anmals. Research on subhumans (monkeys, rats) have great value: if carefully done, it would reveal lawful lawful r/s btn all organisms & their environments.
