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6. Where did the Core Study take place?

  • Italy
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany

7. Why do some people not report crimes ?

  • They are a criminal
  • They think it's not illegal
  • They may be embarrassed or scared
  • They can't be bothered

8. What is the main idea of the Biological approach?

  • people are mad
  • people are born criminals
  • people slowly develop into criminals
  • people are taught to be criminals

9. How many of the males had biological parents convicted of crime?

  • 15%
  • 25%
  • 20%
  • 19%

10. What traits are in a criminal personality?

  • Impulsiveness, lacking feelings of guilt, self-importance, over optimistic, pleasure seeking
  • over optimistic, bipolar, emotional, unstable, timid
  • confident, loud, impulsiveness, scary, unempathetic
  • selfish, rude, socially awkward, funny, mean

11. Who did Mednick compare the records with?

  • Biological parents records
  • Adoptive parents records
  • Biological and Adoptive parents records
  • Grandparents records

12. How many of the males had no parents convicted of crime?

  • 13.5%
  • 20%
  • 14%
  • 17%

13. How many of the males had adoptive parents convicted of crime?

  • 14.7%
  • 13.5%
  • 15.7%
  • 16%

14. How many of the males had both sets of parents convicted of crime?

  • 27.5%
  • 24.5%
  • 25%
  • 20%

15. What's a criticism of the Core study?

  • They didn't look at enough records
  • Demand characteristics were present
  • Criminal records are inaccurate
  • The study lacked ecological validity

16. Why is it hard to measure crime?

  • Not all crimes are reported
  • People don't know what some crimes are
  • There's too many to count
  • Some crimes might be a lie

17. What is the main idea of the Alternative theory?

  • criminals have something wrong with their head
  • people observe others and mimic role models' rewarded behaviour
  • we copy everyone we observe
  • criminals genes are inherited

18. What is a criticism of the Core theory?

  • There can't be a criminal gene that accounts for all criminal behaviour
  • criminals can't learn behaviour
  • brain dysfuntion isn't evident in any criminals
  • criminals have the same features