Learning
Three types of learning
Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning
Where was the prison experiment conducted?
Standford
Behaviorism
Observable, measurable behavior that says environment and learning is the main factor for human behavior
Criminal behavior is ______?
learned
Father of Operant Conditioning
Skinner
Albert Bandura
Bobo Doll experiment
Discriminative Stimuli
Social signals transmitted by group to indicate whether certain behaviors will be rewarded/punished
An approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior
What is Classical Conditioning?
If two stimuli are repeatedly paired, a reaction to one stimulus can result in the same reaction for the other stimulus
Zimbardo
Stanford Prison experiment
Name 2 main criminal personalities
Specialised offender and individual offender
Social Learning
To understand criminal behavior, we must examine perceptions, thoughts, expectancies, competencies, and values
What is Operant conditing?
Getting rewarded/punished for exhibiting a behavior can change that behavior
Milgram
Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory (DAR)
People learn to commit deviant acts through interpersonal interactions with their social environment
Frustration-Induced Criminality
•Increased arousal
•Increased activity to reduce frustration
To understand criminal behavior, we must examine perceptions, thoughts, expectancies, competencies, and values
Deindividuation
loss of a person's sense of self-awareness
Fundamental Attribution Error
When explaining someone’s behavior, the tendency to:
•overestimate dispositional factors (individual traits and characteristics)
•and to underestimate the power of the situation
Situational Instigators &
Regulators of Criminal Behavior
Criminality in many cases may simply reflect being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people