CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Richard Herrnstein, B. F. Skinner, Bad Hindelang

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Hilary Todd

Document Summary

Psychological theories: psychology, examines a number of factors thought to contribute to criminality and criminal behavior. Psychology and crime: freud, psychodynamic approach: therapeutic technique in psychiatry and philosophy. Freud"s components of the personality: id, superego, ego. Psychological learning theories and criminology: psychology contributes a great deal of insight to theories in criminology, have offered fully developed explanations of why people commit crimes. Including: classical and operant conditional, frustration aggression on hypothesis, social learning theory. Classical conditioning: pavlov"s dogs learning reaction, eysench"s theory of criminal personality, extraversion/introversion, neuroticism, psychoticism. Operant conditioning: b. f skinner, behaviorism, c. ray jeffery, non-social re-inforcers, social re-inforcers. James wilson and richard herrnstein: behavior determined by consequences. The frustration aggression hypothesis: frustration can lead to aggression, various stimuli motivate behavior and lead to different types of goal responses, crime is a natural by-product of aggression. Social cognitivism aka social learning theory: albert bandura, modeling, vicarious reinforcement, self-efficacy, collective efficacy theory. Moral development and criminality: moral development theory.