CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Learning Theory, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Etiological criminology: body & psyche: psychological theories. Some conscious, most of which are not freud. Consciousness being a social product, the large part of identity and personality is the result of socialization, social norms clashes with impulses. Superego: unconscious mechanism that stores the norms that we have internalized. Superego makes civilization possible in the first place. Ego: conscious structure that is caught in between the id and superego and is the mediator of mostly unconscious demands based on the reality principle. Classical conditioning: pavlovian: the drooling dog and bell. Skinner"s operant conditioning: skinner box: we learn according to the consequences of our own choices and these actions are either reinforced or punished positively or negatively. Four types: positive reinforcement: getting something pleasurable, negative reinforcement: getting something taken away that you enjoy, positive punishment: law, negative punishment: Bandura"s social learning theory: a lot of learning is consequences of behaviours.