PSYC 1121- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 186 pages long!)
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Reinforced behavior is highly orderly in the lab. However, to preserve skinner"s analysis outside of the lab, we need to include (infer) Two ways to think about voluntary behavior: intention and susceptibility to reward. Reinforcement and learning has a biology that involves dopamine and the nucleus accumbens and anatomical pathways. Longitudinal study of self-control (same people across their lifetime) Childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. Childhood risk factors: self-control, iq, socioeconomic status. Adolescent snares: early smoking, school dropout, teen parenthood. Adult measures (between 26 and 32 years old): health, wealth, and criminal convictions. X-axis: childhood measures of self-control (low to high) Top left graph: health problems, bottom left graph: single parent, bottom right graph: criminal convictions more occurrences in children with lower self-control. Top right graph: finances better finances in children with higher self-control. Poor health habits (overeating, smoking, not exercising) In 1998, million spend on self-help books. In 2009, billion spend on self-help books.
