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Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Psychopathic Behavioral Analysis of Pop Singer Michael Jackson

not the case. People like Jackson who, as infants, spend their formative years within the confines of a hostile, abusive or dysfu...

Four Questions Pertaining to Human Resources Management

If we consider the way in which individuals are motivated and the human relations school were employees are empowered and feel in ...

Criminality Theoretical Development

just tell a child hes good, and hes well, hes fine, does not produce anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Child...

Predatory Criminal Behavior and How It Can Be Dissuaded

2003, 124)" Despite our tendencies to ask such questions, however, we must somehow overcome the...

United Kingdom Machinery Construction Company JCB

a business, but can be seen to encompass the most major. Strategy Michael Porter has argued there are two way to compete; these ...

Skateboarders' Behavior

or research in regards to age group alone. Another thing to look for is the gender of those involved. Are they primarily male, ...

Advertising and Consumer Behavior

confusions would occur for brands using a similar message strategy" (i.e., would consumers get mixed up as to who the advertiser r...

Tammany Hall and Political Impropriety

The perks are a part of the deal. He gives an example by saying that if he knew a bridge was being built, he should buy land aroun...

Essays on Gender

their roles, their tasks. Now, while not all work spaces are divided in this manner, the case in reality is that men and women are...

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...

Justice and Ethics V

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

Ape Tool Utilization and Language

sticks are the primary example of such primitive tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to cra...

Modifying Behavior and the Debate Regarding Rewards and Punishment

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...

Shaking Up Senior Leadership and Organizational Behavior

The concept of change in the organizational environment is a rather simple equation that is one of the most...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

U.S. Workplace Mobbing Behavior and Violence

the states of California, Oregon and Washington have made any efforts to introduce legislation to reduce mobbing in the workplace....

High Risk Behavior in Adolescents

applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...

Eating Disorders and Differing Perspectives

bulimia it is helpful to first examine the so-called facts. According to these "facts" eating disorders affect females more frequ...

Literature Review on Social Behavior

parental influence. Particularly pertinent to the notion of behavior theories is the way they rely upon a system of rewards and p...

Management and Leadership Differences

those adjustments that are made in order to continue along a predetermined course (Analytic Technologies, 2002). A home thermostat...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

Sociology and Why Human Behavior Cannot be Explained by Common Sense

become the individuals they do, noting that a combination of genetic and environmental influences mark the two most significant as...

Morals and Cicero

culture, have a duty to the entity we belong to. We have a duty to engage in moral discussions of philosophy so that we can live a...

Behavior and the Effects of Culture

community or society. A set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community" (Crane, 2005). Crane (200...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

U.S. President and Democratic Theory

The second view is the "substantive" one, which "evaluates democracy on the basis of substance of government policies" (Janda, 200...

A Look at the BDIS-2

The Theoretical Base The theoretical base for this test is linked to the belief that behavioral and emotional problems often go h...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Promotion Problems and Organizational Behavior

financial quotas, but her performance is still undesirable; her failure to win promotion should be a wake-up call for her. Howeve...