SOCL 3601 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: E. O. Wilson, Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism
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Language: allows us to reflect in past and plan for future, think abstractly: more theories inferences, behaviorism: looks at all human behavior in terms of stimuli and response, developed out of animal psychology. Called behaviorism because we cannot study mental processes but we can study behaviors and make. States that we continue to do behaviors we are rewarded for and stop doing behaviors that bring punishments; eventually rewarded behaviors become habit. B. f. skinner: operant conditioning: said we learn behaviors based on reward/punishments. Humans have advanced cognitive abilities: exchange theory: cost/benefit analysis every interaction between people involves some kind of exchange. We calculate the possible risks involved in behaviors, if rewards outweigh risks we are likely to engage in behavior and vice versa. Social rewards (esteem, status, prestige) and psychological rewards (feeling good); also costs here too. People value things differently: social learning theory: albert bandura. 1st, internalizing what we are taught by other people.
