SOCL 3601 : SOCIOLOGY EXAM ONE
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As humans, we don"t have to wait for that punishment before we change our behavior. Social learning theory: albert bandura says that there are 3 ways of learning and they are: Internalizing what we were taught by other people, rewards/punishments, and engaging in vicarious learning (watching other people & how others react to them) This all allows us to take advantage of our ability to survive in almost any environment (we are not restricted to any one climate, food source, etc. ) Instincts in humans are very weak so we have to learn how to survive in a physical and social environment. Feral children= children that have been deprived of human contact early on in life; what happens to these children depends on duration of depravation. Mommies, daddies, doctors, nurses, cops, robbers, cowboys, teachers . Take the role of the other our ability to understand that someone in a different.
