Exam 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and Situational Factors

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When classical conditioning is applied to people,it suggests that they can ________ if they have been rewarded or punished for behavior.

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In order to understand criminal behavior in some depth,it is crucial that we regard all individuals-whether or not they violate the rules of society-as ________ problem solvers who perceive,process,interpret,and respond uniquely to their environments.

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Which individual is associated with the bystander effect?

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Early learning theorists worked in the laboratory,using ________ as their primary subjects.

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Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
Victimology
A common human tendency to discount the influence of the situation and explain behavior by referring to the personality of the actor instead
Individual offender
The scientific study of the causes,circumstances,individual characteristics,and social context of becoming a victim of a crime
Instrumental learning
Synonymous with operant conditioning
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Victimology
A common human tendency to discount the influence of the situation and explain behavior by referring to the personality of the actor instead
Individual offender
The scientific study of the causes,circumstances,individual characteristics,and social context of becoming a victim of a crime
Instrumental learning
Synonymous with operant conditioning
Fundamental attribution error
The idea that complicated behavior can be broken down into more simple behavior
Crime of obedience
A person,object,or event that elicits behavior
Stimulus
An act performed in response to orders from authority that is considered illegal or immoral by the larger community
Reductionism
Internal mental processes that enable humans to imagine,to gain knowledge,to reason,and to evaluate information
Social learning theory
One who is the product of a long,possibly intense series of frustrations resulting from unmet needs
Models
Significant persons in the social environment that provide cues for how to do something
Cognitive processes
In order to understand criminal behavior,we must examine perceptions,thoughts,expectancies,competencies,and values
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Learning the consequences of one's behavior is the basis of ________ learning.

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Explain the concept of deindividuation and illustrate by describing any one experiment in social psychology.

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According to Sutherland's differential association theory

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An essential difference between the behavior theory of Watson and Skinner is

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For most people,becoming part of a group promotes feelings of anonymity.

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Studies conducted by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo both found that one's situation strongly influences behavior.

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Edwin Sutherland was a(n)________ who believed that criminal or deviant behavior is learned the same way that all behavior is learned.

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If Bandura's position is essentially correct,then aggressive and violent behavior can be substantially reduced by

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The process whereby people lose their identities and feel less responsible in a crowd is called

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Berkowitz's two criminal personality classifications are

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Increasing behavior by avoiding an unpleasant stimulus is referred to as punishment.

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