PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roy Baumeister, Albert Bandura
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Part of behaviour is due to the environment; and how the person responds to different events. Each person has individual differences, so not everyone will respond to the same environment equally. E. g. two people in the winter, person a is more sensitive to the cold compared to person b. Individual differences are less salient for an extreme/overwhelming event. E. g. if someone brought a tiger in the lecture hall, everyone will escape. Individual differences play a role for more subtle events. You can reinforce a normal person to the wrong behaviours as a parent. E. g. if you reward them to have a cookie for wrong behaviours, then they will continue doing the wrong social acts. If what they see in the environment are rewarded for anti-social behaviour, then you will develop anti-social behaviour. If both parents are both gang members, the child will grow up and learn these norms .
