Classic Biological study (Raine et al) (1997)

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1. What are some of the controls they took?

  • None of the above
  • NGRI murderers had to be separate from the non-murderers, they had to continue their medication and they couldn't practise the task beforehand
  • Participants remained medication free for 2 weeks before the scan, participants practised the task beforehand, participants were scanned for general physical health, had a psychiatric interview and their medical background was checked.
  • No controls
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2. What was the aim of the study?

  • To see if NGRI murderers would kill again.
  • To see if there was a difference in brain structure between NGRI murderers and non-murderers.
  • To see if NGRI murderers were lying.
  • To see if the brain structure between murderers and non-murderers was the same.

3. What areas did they specifically look at?

  • None of the above
  • The brain stem, the hypothalamus and the occipital lobe
  • The limbic system, pre-frontal cortex, media temporal lobe and the corpus callous
  • Just the pre-frontal cortex

4. What was the DV?

  • Murderers/non-murderers
  • Glucose levels in the pre-frontal cortex
  • Glucose levels in the limbic system

5. What experimental design did they use?

  • Independent measures design
  • Matched pairs design
  • Independent groups design
  • Repeated measures design
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