B542 OCR Psychology - Criminal Behaviour

A quick quiz to test you on Criminal behaviour core study.

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What was the AIM of Mednick et Al's study?
To see if criminal behaviour is due to genes or upbringing
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This study was an adoption study. True or False?
True
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14,500 adopted males, from what country, were used?
Denmark
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What was used to collate information on Criminal tendencies?
Conviction records
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Regardless of biological parents, a child was more likely to be a criminal if their adoptive parents were. True or false?
False
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From this study, it was concluded that, criminal behaviour depends on our...?
Genes
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The conclusion doesn't support the core theory. True or False?
False
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A criticism of this study is contamination effect. Define contamination effect in this scenario.
Biological parents' traits rub off on the child before adoption.
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This study was an adoption study. True or False?

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What was used to collate information on Criminal tendencies?

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Regardless of biological parents, a child was more likely to be a criminal if their adoptive parents were. True or false?

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ellie

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very useful, thanks!

MrsMacLean

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A very useful mini quiz on criminal behaviour!

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