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Environmental and Cultural Learning Influences

Question 7 • RYLE25 - PSYCHOLOGY - FULL CREDIT

How does culture affect learning?

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Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: A culture creates context for behavior through the reinforcements and punishments it provides for each discrete behavior. By shaping behaviors, cultures reaffirm acceptable behavior and discourage deviant behavior. Cultures shape behaviors through the unique reinforcements and punishments available to social interactions, including attention and fame as reinforcement and shunning and exile as punishments.

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