PSY BEH 104S Lecture 10:
7 Feb 2019
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Imagine that the penalty for taking drugs just one time was life in prison. The fine would be more likely to affect how you feel about drugs because you internally have to come up with reasons as to why you don"t use drugs. 2 groups of kids 1 forbidden toy. Given severe threat and other half given midl threat. Children asked to rate how desirable they found the toy. It turns out that the children given the severe threat found more desire in the toy than those in the mild threat. Would it have an effects on behavior . Could play with toy, one toy was really amazing. See if the child would play with toy under each circumstance, and if it would have a lasting effect. Kids in severe still wanted to play with toy and mild didn"t.
