AC2.2 Flashcards
What is Bandura social learning theory?
Under social learning theory was when he got a group of children aged 4 to 5 they’re splitting into three groups. Group one sort of version of the film where models were praised. Group 2 sort of version in which the models were punished. Group 3 was a control group that saw no punishment or reward.
Group one imitated the aggressive behaviours they had seen being rewarded. Group 3 also imitated the model but slightly less. Group 2 were at least likely to imitate the aggressive behaviour.
What are Bandura stages?
Aggressive event, learned aggressive skills, expected success and reward and pro violence values.
What is observational learning?
Observational learning is is a form of media or environment that can influence somebody so these are things like your family, subcultures like punk or street gangs, cultural symbols like TV books video games.
What are the strengths of Bandur’s social learning theory?
The strengths are that it takes into account that we are social beings and shows how we learn from other peoples experiences not just their own. It also shows that children who observed rewarded aggressive behaviour imitate thus showing the importance of role models in learning criminal behaviour.
What are the limitations of Bandura’s learning theory?
The limitations are that it cannot generalise to the real world since the experiment was done in a laboratory. Not all observed behaviour is easily imitated example we might watch a film on hacking but it is too complex to replicate.
What is the psychodynamic theory in terms of criminality?
This focuses on our early childhood experiences and determining our personality and future behaviour based on childhood trauma.
What are the three parts of our mind?
The Id, the ego and the super ego.
How does three parts of my link to criminality?
It links to criminal behaviour because children need to progress from the pleasure principle to the reality principle to have a healthy personality. Criminals are children who do not make the transition because of childhood events example the super ego has not been properly instilled they could have a weak super ego or they could have a too harsh and unforgiving super ego or a deviant super ego.
What is the dispositional theory?
Eysenck believed that the involvement in criminal behaviour could be identified through personality types, this is due to some personality types craving excitement in life. From 700 personality questionnaires from soldiers being treated from neurotic disorder disorders he found there were several different personality traits.
What are the personality types of? Eyesencks questionnaire.
Extraversion/introversion. neuroticism/stability.
What are the strengths of the dispositional theory?
The strengths are it shows how some measurable personality traits could increase the chances of someone offending. Some studies show that there is a link between a high E, N and P School and criminality.
What are the limitations of the dispositional theory?
The limitations of the dispositional theory evidence shows that prisoners are often neurotic. This could be an effect of being in prison however. People may lie when completing questionnaires which could affect the validity of the results.
