George Recently Began a New Sales Job Where Taking Clients

question 65

Multiple Choice

George recently began a new sales job where taking clients out and partying was considered part of the role.He regularly found parties with excessive drinking and other deviant activities and brought his clients there to socialize and get into their favour.He was starting to find himself losing control and partying to the extreme and his family is becoming concerned.This occupational deviance is best understood using:

• A)Techniques of Neutralization
• B)Social Bond's theory
• C)Self-control theory
• D)Labelling theory
• E)Social learning theory

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Definitions:

Higher-order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is first made meaningful or consequential for an organism through an initial step of learning, and then that stimulus is used as a basis for learning about some new stimulus.

Disinhibition

The reduction of inhibition, leading to an increase in spontaneous and unrestrained behavior, often as an effect of alcohol or neural damage.

Sensitization

An increased reaction to a stimulus following its repeated presentation, often observed in allergic reactions or in response to drugs.

Behavioral Contrast

The phenomenon where the rate of response to a stimulus changes significantly when the conditions of reinforcement for another stimulus are altered.