BEHAVIORAL

-Classical Conditioning: William did not like male authority figures, because from when he was a young baby all the way up to around the age of ten he was being abused by a number of different male authority figures. These people ranged from people in his family like his father, to people he didn't really know like drug dealers and clients of his prostitute mother. The unconditioned stimulus was the abuse he endured through the years from people, mainly his father and other male adults. The unconditioned reaction was William feeling hurt, sad, and resentful, confused, and having low self esteem. The neutral stimulus would be adult male authority figures. Through conditioning, any male authority figure became the conditioned stimulus. The conditioned response was William disliking male authority figures.

-Operant conditioning: William was exposed to operant conditioning around the age of nine when he began to hang out with older kids. He would do bad things like......

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Title: Case Study
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