CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Noxious Stimulus, B. F. Skinner, Behavioural Sciences
28 Jan 2017
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Origins of criminal behaviour: learning and situational factors. Cognitive processes are those internal mental process that enable humans to imagine, to gain knowledge, reason, and evaluate information. A stimulus is a person, object that elicits behaviour. Believed the primary goal of psych is the prediction and control of behaviour. Variable is any behaviour that can be measured. To understand the development of delinquency and criminal behaviour are most focus on environmental stimuli, observable behaivour and rewards. Knowledge about human behaviour can be best advanced if scientists use references that have a physical basis and can be publicily observed by others. Every psychological experiment should be anchored to something that we can all observe. Behavioural science data must be comparable to be verified or disconfirmed. Humas differ only in degree from their animal ancestry. Situationism refers to the belief that all behaviour is at the mercy of the stimuli in the environment and individuals have universally no control.
