CRJU 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Korean War, Rebel Yell, B. F. Skinner
16 Sep 2016
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Designed to convince an enemy that the posturer is a dangerous and frightening adversary. If posturing does not work, options then become: Instinctive knowledge that the opponent will not kill or harm one of its. Vietnam war own kind once it has surrendered o. Following the korean war, combat training was changed to increase firing rates of soldiers o. It worked, firing rates increased to above 90% in vietnam. Symbolic modeling: operant conditioning ( bf skinner) Put the interaction in the center of the analysis, not the individual. Problems with focusing on individuals: most young men, poor people, minorities, and children of divorce do not become violent criminals. And some affluent people do become violent: we often examine only illegal or stigmatized violence. Violence carried out by state agents is usually characterized as good violence, or not as violence at all o o. Even for those persons that are violent, they are violent only a small part of the time.
