During Captivity
Abduction
Being abducted is a key event where Kampusch focuses on the emotions and thoughts she experienced when she first saw a man standing next to a van on her way to school, on the morning she was captured. She recounts how she experienced a fear sensation when she saw the van, inducing a physiological reaction within her body, as well as a strong desire to cross the street. She summarises how thoughts of abduction and child molestation ran through her head. Specifically, growing up Kampusch describes how she would watch stories on the news about child abduction, molestation cases, rapes, murder of young girls and their parents’ pleas for them to return home. According to Social learning theory the impact of seeing …show more content…
To understand this behaviour cognitive mediation of reinforcement as described in social learning theory will be applied. This describes that when individuals devalue the required behaviour and/or the reinforcer, they may not produce behaviour in the expected reinforced direction but may however respond in an oppositional manner (Bandura, 1977; Brauer & Tittle, 2012), implying Kampuschs’ behaviour was representative of her lack of respect for her captor. Alternatively, another explanation can be drawn using self-reinforcement, which describes how an individuals self-produced consequences can impact on an individuals behaviour (Bandura, 1977). Moreover, when reinforcement consequences are not harmonious with the individuals own self-produced behavioural standards their impact on influencing behaviour is weak. To illustrate, Kampush describes how she saw the refusal to kneel and call him My Lord as a sense of power and how it took strength to remain consistent in her refusal. Expanding on this explanation this behaviour was representative of her being true to herself and maintaining her sense of self, which was more important to her than the external negative reinforcement she would
Abduction
Being abducted is a key event where Kampusch focuses on the emotions and thoughts she experienced when she first saw a man standing next to a van on her way to school, on the morning she was captured. She recounts how she experienced a fear sensation when she saw the van, inducing a physiological reaction within her body, as well as a strong desire to cross the street. She summarises how thoughts of abduction and child molestation ran through her head. Specifically, growing up Kampusch describes how she would watch stories on the news about child abduction, molestation cases, rapes, murder of young girls and their parents’ pleas for them to return home. According to Social learning theory the impact of seeing …show more content…
To understand this behaviour cognitive mediation of reinforcement as described in social learning theory will be applied. This describes that when individuals devalue the required behaviour and/or the reinforcer, they may not produce behaviour in the expected reinforced direction but may however respond in an oppositional manner (Bandura, 1977; Brauer & Tittle, 2012), implying Kampuschs’ behaviour was representative of her lack of respect for her captor. Alternatively, another explanation can be drawn using self-reinforcement, which describes how an individuals self-produced consequences can impact on an individuals behaviour (Bandura, 1977). Moreover, when reinforcement consequences are not harmonious with the individuals own self-produced behavioural standards their impact on influencing behaviour is weak. To illustrate, Kampush describes how she saw the refusal to kneel and call him My Lord as a sense of power and how it took strength to remain consistent in her refusal. Expanding on this explanation this behaviour was representative of her being true to herself and maintaining her sense of self, which was more important to her than the external negative reinforcement she would