ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: sinsel

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Reproductive strategy is to mate with multiple partners and produce as many offspring to ensure as possible. Increases likelihood that the antisocial characteristics continue with the next generation: k strategists characteristics include being co-operative, self-controlled and having more stable relationships. Reproductive strategy is to have fewer partners, few children but invest more heavily in those children (to ensure their survival) Behavioural theories of crime: behavioural theories focus on how behaviour, including crime, is learned, behavioural psychologists have identified two main mechanisms for learning behaviour, classical conditioning, operant conditioning. Classical conditioning: explains how accidental or unplanned associations between two stimuli results in learned associations, these learned associations often occur by chance and outside of conscious awareness. The result can be powerful emotions and behaviours which we can"t always explain (e. g. food aversions, phobias etc. ) In classical conditioning: an unconditioned stimulus produces an unconditioned response e. g. pavlov"s dog presence of food (unconditioned stimulus) produces salivation (unconditioned response); or.