FRHD 3150 Lecture Notes - Behavioural Sciences, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reciprocal Inhibition
19 Apr 2013
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Page 1 of 2: brief ethical and historical overview, positive and conditioned reinforcement. Ethical issues: abuse of power ubiquitous, pervasive throughout human history, the rules of conduct recognized with respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc. Ethics: =standards of behaviour developed within a cultural group to promote survival of that group, countercontrol= influence controllee has on controller by virtue of access to reinforcers. In a democratic society, voters vote for elected officials. Is it ethical to control behaviour: 2 assumptions regarding the systematic application of learning principles for behaviour modification. It is desirable to achieve certain behavioural objectives. Ethical guidelines: association for behaviour analysis international code of ethics, professional code of ethics. Historical overview: pavlov, conditioned reflexes: an investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral. Cortex, 1927: conditioned reflexes (dog salivates when hears ring, most complex activities were due to pavlovian conditioning, reflexes= automatic responses to prior stimuli.
