Criminal Behavior theme 2 OCR GCSE psychology
unfinished but all the main points for the exam hope its as usefull for you as it is for me
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- Created by: Vita Lerche
- Created on: 11-12-12 16:47
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- Criminal Behavior
- Social Learning Theory
- Learn off of others around you
- VICARIOUS reincorcment
- Biological Theroy
- You are born a criminal, its a brian disfunction
- Parts of the brain that are messed up
- Corpus caulim
- bridge between hemispheres of the brain
- in criminals it is disfunctioned making them irrational
- bridge between hemispheres of the brain
- temperoal lobe
- Limbic system
- Pre-frontal cortex
- Corpus caulim
- Parts of the face that are messed up
- Lots of hair
- Big nose
- Big lips
- Strong jaw bone
- Criminal personality
- Anagram LOISP
- Lack guilt
- Over-optimistic
- Impulsive
- Self centured
- Pleasure seekers
- Mednick et al
- Acceded criminal records of 14,000 danish adopted men and compared their crime rates to that of their biological parents
- percentages of chances of being a criminal as an adopted child...
- Biological parents adoptive perents criminals 24.5%
- Biological parents NOT adoptive parents criminals 20.0%
- adoptive parents NOT biological parents criminals 14.7%
- Neither parent sets criminals 13.5%
- limitations
- ONLY MALE
- CRIME IS DIFFRENT
- MEASURING ONLY THOSE WHO WERE CALGHT
- Criminal records only truly measure bad criminals because they were bad enough to get caught
- SUPPORTS BIOLOGICAL THEORY
- But difference isn't much so shows their is space for another theory
- Social Learning Theory
- adoptive parents NOT biological parents criminals 14.7%
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