PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parenting Styles, Albert Bandura, Classical Conditioning
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Add loud noise with white rat exposure (white rat = cs) (pipe banging = us) Repeated trials, presenting rat alone will produce fear. Positive consequences of a behavior will strengthen it, while negative will reduce it. Positive reinforcement give a good thing. Negative reinforcement take away a bad thing. Positive punishment take away a good thing. Negative punishment give a bad thing. Generalization response to stimulus extended to similar stimulus types. Shaping new behavior being taught by successively rewarding a behavior or a behavior that is very close to or approximates the behavior. Identified that problems behaviors can be acquired through observation of a model. Ex. kids watching fighting on tv or in video games, they may display other kinds of aggression. Large body of literature linking media violence with increases in violent behavior, with younger children being more susceptible. Younger child will habituate their emotional response to seeing violence.
