PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Offender, Reductionism, Classical Conditioning
2 Aug 2016
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They have a harsh conscious aspect of the superego. Deviant identification: one of your role models has antisocial thoughts and behaviours. These three constructs aren"t very empirical and observable. There was a time in psychiatry where a lot of a person psychological deficiencies were attributed to poor mother-child relationship. Without a positive influence there is less chance of building self control. Focuses on what prevents us from committing crime and antisocial behaviour. Social bonds is what prevents us from engaging in antisocial behaviour. If you have predisposition to have less control and you have opportunities to offend, your chances of doing so are high. 19% of criminal behaviour is due to poor self control. Stimulus generalaiton: once you pair the ucs with cs, any similar cs will elicit the cr. Extinction is when the conditioning disappears when the ucs is no longer paired with the cs. Focusing on deviant sexual preference with sex offender.
