Model Of Antisocial Behavior

Observational learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to watching others. People will model, or replicate certain behaviors if the model receives a positive reward. Modeling of antisocial behavior, behavior that is negative and detrimental to society is commonplace such as from TV. People learn that violent crimes, suicide, or school shootings will gain them publicity, a positive reward. However, if a model is rewarded for prosocial behavior, behavior that is positive and beneficial, others will demonstrate that behavior. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a model in the civil rights movement in using nonviolent protest to gain social change. Albert Brandura conducted an experiment to test observational learning
Eight days after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, all the U.S. states (except Vermont) reported threats from people who had modeled the antisocial (negative) TV publicity (Cooper, 1999). Bandura believes that imitation is determined by rewards or punishments given to the model. Publicity of school shootings on TV had become a reward. However, prosocial behavior was evident when Christians, whose models were parents with strong moral values, saved Jews from the Nazis in WWII. (London, 1970; Oliner & Oliner, 1988). Lieutenant Colonel Grossman believes that antisocial models in violent TV and video games are a significant cause of violent crimes. When children are supposed to be modeling their prosocial teachers and parents, they are spending significantly more time in front of the TV, which glorifies murderers by publicizing their pictures. In the Jonesboro murders, children modeled school shootings based in TV reporting. Additionally, people learn by observation in video games, which may lead them to commit brutal crimes in real
A biomedical approach to treatment of PTSD is to prescribe antidepressants, as a reduction in depression helps PTSD patients (Browner (1994)); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), pioneered by Aaron Beck (1976), seeks to change thinking patterns and teach clients meta-awareness. Upon a review of the similarities and differences between the two approaches, the best approach becomes an eclectic approach, or combination of CBT and antidepressants. Similarities between the two treatments nevertheless do not create redundancies, and still allow for an eclectic approach. The first similarity between the two is that neither antidepressants such as SSRIs, noradrenalin-reducers, or GABA promoters, nor CBT, claim to be the answer to PTSD, as a) there is no one cause, but instead a combination of etiological factors, and b) every individual is unique and requires personalized solutions. Thus, at the outset both approaches acknowledge the possibility of an eclectic approach. Another similarity is that both face Eysenck's criticism in 1961 of spontaneous remission-that is, how does one measure whether treatment is effective? As such, both treatments are weighed against placebos, and both are judged by outcome studies (which assume that individuals start at the same level of PTSD,