Changing Gang Members
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Using Skinner's behavioral perspective on personality development, what type of environment and reinforcement intervention changes would you use to change the behavior of a gang member to a law abiding citizen?.
To answer this question, understand the reinforcement gained from being in a gang, and how to then change the individual's environment to help him/her receive the same reinforcements from positive behaviors.
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This solution discusses how to change the behaviour of a gang member into more positive and adaptive behavior, based off of the principles of Skinner's behavioral perspective on personality development. Namely, it discusses how to adapt the individual's reinforcement to receive positive reinforcement from positive behaviors rather than from gang-related behaviors.
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The behavior of the gang member is considered the operant. The behavior is the result of some type of reinforcement. In order to remove the negative behavior, we need to remove the reinforcer and replace it with one that encourages good behavior.
The reinforcer for the ...
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