reseachers names- psychological explanations

Question 1

Eysenck and Eysenck

Answer 1

compared EPI score of prisoners to control group
prisoners recorded high than control group
across all ages

Question 2

Farrington (criminal personality)

Answer 2

offenders tended to score higher on psychotic scale and not neurotic or extrovert

Question 3

Hoffit

Answer 3

proposed types of offenders based on timing of first offence and how long offending continues

Question 4

Digman

Answer 4

five factor model of personality
agreeableness, openness and conscientiousness in addition
more in touch w/modern personality theories

Question 5

Bartol and Holanchock

Answer 5

hispanic and african american offernders
groups based on criminal history and crime nature
all groups less extroverted than non-criminal control group

Question 6

Bartol

Answer 6

sample used different cultural group to cultural group investigated

Question 7

Mischel

Answer 7

we play different parts of our personality depending on who and where we are

Question 8

Raine

Answer 8

ADP as result of difference brain structure whilst Eysenck believed it to be due to nervous system activity

Question 9

Chandler

Answer 9

support for Kolberg’s model and criminality

Question 10

Schonenberg and Justyle

Answer 10

support for hostile attribution bias

Question 11

Dodge and Frame

Answer 11

HAB

Question 12

Barbaree

Answer 12

support for minimalisation

Question 13

Mednick

Answer 13

alternative explanations to DAT

Question 14

Gibbs

Answer 14

alternative theories of moral reasoning
mature- pre-conv
immature- conv
post-conv should be abandoned as culturally bias to western culture

Question 15

Hoffman

Answer 15

gender bias

Question 16

Lewis

Answer 16

causation not correlation

Question 17

Palmer and Hollin

Answer 17

level of moral reasoning evidence
11Q dilemma- keeping friend’s secret, not taking something that isn’t yours
delinquent groups showed less mature LOMR

Question 18

Thornton and Reid

Answer 18

individual differences
financially motivated crimes- pre-conv- robbery
assault- not ass w/any level
pre-conv- think can get away

Question 19

Langdon

Answer 19

individual differences

intelligence better way to predict offending behavior,

Question 20

Farringiton (DAT)

Answer 20

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