PSY 1101 Study Guide - Ethology, Sociobiology
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Thus, this school is called behaviourism : mental events are private (science is objective, why do we act the way we do? (motivation, all behaviours can be explained by their consequences, we learn to repeat behaviour that has been reinforced , we do not repeat behaviour that has not been reinforced, a strict environmental ( not inner mind ) explanation of behaviour, all behaviour is learned. (non is genetic, no need to postulate about genetic influence. They have been reinforced for their criminal behaviour and thus repeat it. (clockward orange: a criminal is a criminal because of their past lerning, no need to infer inner mental causes, no point inferring about different types of memory; cpmscopismess, etc, a criminal is a criminal because past criminal behaviour has been reinforced, determinisitic all behaviour is determined by consequential events (reinforcement (no need to postulate about hidden, repressed motives) punishment)
