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psychologyandthestrange:

behaviourists believe that is due to operant conditioning, individuals who develop schizophrenia are believed to have been deprived of normal social cues, for instance their smile may not have been returned with a smile, from their mother which leads to a lack of reinforcement and they don’t feel…

My schizophrenia isn’t because my mom didn’t smile at me….  Schizophrenia is a disease, not a behaviour. 

did you even read the whole thing? the behaviourist theory is a THEORY not a proven cause, and the smiling thing is just an example, the cause of schizophrenia has yet to be found out and these are just different theories to try and help understand it, and it’s stuff i had to learn for my psychology class..

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   did you even read the whole thing? the behaviourist theory is a THEORY not a proven cause, and the smiling thing is just...

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   My schizophrenia isn’t because my mom didn’t smile at me…. Schizophrenia is a disease, not a behaviour.

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