PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Verbal Behavior, Behaviorism, Abai Qunanbaiuly
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Powerful people have used reinforcers and punishers at their disposal to control the behaviour of people who had fewer reinforcers and punishers to deliver to the means to deliver them coningent on selected target behaviours o o o. Reinforcers at the expense of those with less power. This is why consituions, bill of rights are designed to control the behaviour of those who control the behaviour of others. In the absence of democracy, other abuses developed resuling in many countries to become democraic. Systemaic applicaions of learning or condiioning principles and techniques are based on two assumpions: behaviour can be controlled and it is desirable to achieve certain objected. Ethics certain standards of behaviour that a culture developed to promote the survival of that culture o. Stealing is wrong because it has disrupive efects. Ethics contributed to the survival of our culture in the same way that opposable thumbs did.
