How Do the Want and Should Selves Interact in the Decision

question 15

Essay

How do the want and should selves interact in the decision whether to punish someone who is behaving unfairly?

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A behavioral modification system where the level of a behavior is adjusted by providing incentives or enforcing consequences.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning by the repeated association of two stimuli, where the response that was initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Behaviour Therapy

A type of psychotherapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through reinforcement, punishment, and other learning principles.

Learned Behaviour

Behavior that an organism acquires through experience, as opposed to behaviors that are instinctive or innate.