Question

Danny is a novice gang member. He sees the gang leader gain the respect and praise of his fellow gang members after senselessly murdering a rival gang member. Tony subsequently starts to engage in violent activities more often. Behavioral theorists are most likely to attribute the increase in Danny's violent behavior to the effects of:__________.A. negative reinforcement.
B. counter conditioning.
C. vicarious reinforcement.
D. classical conditioning.

Answer 1

Answer:

Vicarious reinforcement

Explanation:

The increase in Danny's violent behaviour is attributed by the behavioural theorists to a vicarious reinforcement because Danny recognises the fact that a rival gang member was senselessly murdered by their gang leader and still got rewarded and respected by the gang members thereby imitating the actions of his gang leader because he saw that the gang leader was greatly rewarded after killing a rival gang member