Thorndike referred to this as the law of effect. In simple terms, Thorndike explains that if a certain stimulus/behavior has a favorable consequence, the subject will want to repeat this behavior. If it continues to have a favorable consequence then the subject will continue to repeat this behavior until it becomes a continuous pattern. The opposite applies to behaviors that have unfavorable consequences, the subject in question will associate the unfavorable consequence with the behavior and cease performing the behavior. The worse the consequence, the faster the subject will stop the behavior.
When the scenario is based with Sociologist Victor
Rodriguez, the reason that Jeff and Matthew participated in the riot was
because that they suffered from anger and frustration in which is because of
the fact that there is a presence of gasoline shortage.
