All Criminological studies

Question 1

Yang et al (2009)

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People with psychopathy had lower amygdala volume.

Question 1

Williams et al (2010)

Answer 1

80% of 196 prisoners had some form of TBI.

Question 2

Jacobs et al (1965)

Answer 2

XYY men were more aggressive and there is an overrepresentation of them in prison.

Question 3

Alice Theilgaard (1984)

Answer 3

Men with XYY were less intelligent but there was no evidence of a criminal gene.

Question 4

Eysenck

Answer 4

Arousal theory and PEN personality.

Question 5

Boduszek et al (2013)

Answer 5

Repeat offenders had high levels of PEN

Question 6

Farrington et al (1982)

Answer 6

Eysenck’s personality questionnaire could not be used to predict criminal behaviour.

Question 7

Johnson et al (2000)

Answer 7

The more TV watched over the 17 year duration of the study, the more agressive the children grew up to be.

Question 8

Besemer et al (2013)

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Children with convicted parents have a higher chance of being convicted (labelling)

Question 9

Rosenthal and Jackson (1968)

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Teacher that were told children would do well gave those children more attention and consequently the children developed higher IQs.

Question 10

Baldwin (1993)

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Police interviews often used coercion and opressive procedures.

Question 11

Geiselman et al (1985)

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Cognitive interviews resulted in increased correct recall.

Question 12

Kohnken et al (1999)

Answer 12

While cog. ints produced more correct info, it also produces more incorrect info.

Question 13

Loftus and Palmer (1974)

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EWT is unreliable

Question 14

The Yerkes-Dodson Law (1908)

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Arousal improves performance but only up to a point. different to cat theo as the drop off is gradual.

Question 15

Catastrophe theory (1994)

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Too much anxiety results in a dramatic drop off in memory performance.

Question 16

Pickel (1998)

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Weapon focus occurs because the presence of a weapon is unusual.

Question 17

Fawcett et al (2013)

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Meta analysis which showed the presence of a weapon consistently had a negative effect on EWT.

Question 18

Yuille and Cutshall (1986)

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Field study investigating the effct of leading questions and found that weapon focus is less pronounced irl.

Question 19

Valentine and Mesout (2009)

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Supports catastrophe theory (london dungeons)

Question 20

Steblay et al (1999)

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Jurors exposed to negative pre trial publicity were mmore likely to give a guilty verdict.

Question 21

Sigall and Ostrove (1975)

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More attractive defendants recieved shorter sentences for burglary but longer for fraud.

Question 22

Dion et al

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Halo effect - physically attractive people are assumed to have other attractive properties

Question 23

Pfieffer and Ogloff (1991)

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White uni students were more likely to say a black defendant was guilty than a white defendant for the same crime.

Question 24

Mahoney and Dixon (1997)

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People perceived those that had a birmingham accent as more guilty.

Question 25

Ireland (2000)

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Anger management reduced disruptive behaviour.

Question 26

Blackburn (1993)

Answer 26

Anger management can help criminals in the long term but not the short term.

Question 27

Maletzky (2006)

Answer 27

Hormone therapy with MPA reduces recividism.