Exam 5: Trait Theory

Discuss the personality characteristics that are associated with crime, including Eysenck's model of categorizing the dimensions of a criminal personality.

Nature theory argues that intelligence is largely determined genetically, that ancestry determines IQ, and that low intelligence, as demonstrated by low IQ, is linked to criminal behavior.

________ is a psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes - how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them.

Identify and discuss the four factors that social learning theorists suggest contribute to violent or aggressive behavior.

Discuss the relationship between hormonal changes and mood and behavior.

Brain structure, brain damage, and brain chemicals are the causes of behavior in the __________ perspective.

Psychopaths are the product of a destructive home environment.

There is a stronger link between criminal behavior and identical twins, than between criminal behavior and fraternal twins.

What research finding counters criminologists who claim that only low-IQ criminals get caught?

Biological explanations of crime reemerged in the early _______ with the publication of Sociobiology by Edmond O. Wilson.

__________ reflects the view that criminality is a product of abnormal biological or psychological traits.

The early research of Lombroso and his contemporaries is regarded as scientific fact.

According to ___________, for a variety of genetic and environmental reasons, people's brains function differently in response to environmental stimuli.

__________ is the branch of behavior theory most relevant to criminology.

The contagion effect is an aspect of mental disorders and crime.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three principle sources of behavior modeling?