The Decision to Copy a Crime Is Weighed Not Only

question 15

True/False

The decision to copy a crime is weighed not only against the expected reward versus punishment from the crime, but also against expected outcomes of alternate law-abiding behaviors.

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Definitions:

Smart Board

An interactive whiteboard that integrates touch detection for user input (e.g., scrolling, zooming) with multimedia resources and internet access.

Contingency Theory

The view that learning occurs when stimuli provide information about the likelihood of the occurrence of other stimuli.

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.

Robert Rescorla

An American psychologist known for his work on the involvement of cognitive processes in classical conditioning, especially the contingency theory of learning.