Unit 1 PT 2

Question 1

Psychological criminology

Answer 1

1) Focuses primarily on how individual factors lead to the involvement and maintenance of criminal and other antisocial behaviour

2) Is the science of the behaviour and mental processes of the person who commits crime

Question 2

Psychological criminology has shifted its focus in many ways:

Answer 2

1) It has taken a more cognitive approach to studying criminal behaviour

2) It has paid more attention to biological/neurological factors

3) It has adopted a developmental approach to studying criminal behaviour among both individuals and groups

Question 3

Cognitive approach

Answer 3

1) Refer to attitudes, beliefs, values, and thoughts that people hold about the social environment, interrelations, human nature, and themselves

Question 4

Biological/Neurological approach

Answer 4

1) Biological/neurological study of criminal behaviour often focuses on aggression and violent behaviour

Question 5

Developmental approach

Answer 5

1)Examines the changes and influences (risk factors) across a person’s lifetime that contribute to the formation of antisocial and criminal behaviour or, alternatively, that protects individuals with many risk factors in their lives

Question 6

Trait

Answer 6

1) Relatively stable and lasting tendency to behave in a particular way across time

2) Traits are believed by some psychologists to be the basic building blocks of personality

Question 7

Disposition

Answer 7

1) Signifies internal or personality determinants of human behaviour

2) Dispositional theorists look to inner conflicts, beliefs, drives, personal needs, traits, or attitudes to explain behaviour

Question 8

Psychiatric criminology

Answer 8

1) Focuses on individual aspects of behaviour, particularly internal forces and unconscious drives

Question 9

Psychology

Answer 9

1) Have earned a PhD, a PsyD, or an EdD and complete specialized training in research First earn medical degree (MD or DO) and complete a medical internship

2) Focus more on social, cultural, and environmental factors instead of biological ones

3)They help identify negative thought patterns and other areas of brain function that might affect your behaviour and emotional health, along with key environmental or life stressors that also play a part

Question 10

Psychiatry

Answer 10

1) Have earned a PhD, a PsyD, or an EdD and complete specialized training in research First earn medical degree (MD or DO) and complete a medical internship
2) Help diagnose and treat mental health conditions
3) They’ll take your medical history and evaluate whether any underlying conditions or medications you currently take might be playing a role in your symptoms