PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23-24, 30: Eval, Stimulus Control, Verbal Behavior
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Constitutions, bills of rights, and other poli docs of modern states can be viewed as formal specifications of contingencies designed to control the behaviour of those who control the behaviour of others. Behaviour mod was associated with invasive procedures like ect, brainwashing, and torture. Systematic apps of learning or conditioning principles and techniques are based on the assumptions that behaviour can be controlled and that it"s desirable to do so to achieve certain objectives. Extreme wariness is good for any new advance in science or tech. The science and tech are highly sophisticated means that people have developed for solving probs. The issue is that people frequently misuse science and tech: skinner argued that the science of behaviour is the logical key to the solution of that prob. Behaviour mod can also be misused, so it"s imp t have ethical guidelines to ensure that it"s used for the good of society.
