Research Has Shown That Strong Social Controls Can Almost Totally

question 81

True/False

Research has shown that strong social controls can almost totally prevent deviant behavior from occurring.

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

A therapeutic approach that seeks to alter human behavior through systematic reinforcement or punishment mechanisms.

Operant Conditioning Principles

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior. It encourages the recurrence of a behavior with a positive reinforce or decreases it by negative reinforce.

Unconditional Positive Regard

A concept in psychology that refers to accepting and supporting a person regardless of what they say or do, especially in a therapist-client relationship.

Operant Conditioning

An approach to behavior modification that relies on the leveraging of rewards or the infliction of punishments to adjust behavior levels.