Chapter 7 Flashcards
Psychological/Trait Theories of Crime
Who developed the controversial concept of psychoanalysis, founded on the perception of resistance used by individuals when therapists attempt to make them conscious of their unconscious?
Sigmund Freud
What is considered a warning of looming danger or a painful experience and results in the individual attempting to fix the situation.
Anxiety
Delinquency is considered what when it results in antisocial behavior?
Manifest
Who examined adolescents struggling to discover their own ego identity while negotiating, learning, and understanding social interactions, as well as developing a sense of morality and right and wrong?
Erik Erikson
What is a subconscious domain of the psyche that is responsible for our innate desires and drives, such as libido?
id
In addition to the id, ego, and superego, anxiety, ______, and the unconscious are also key principles of Freud’s psychoanalytical perspective.
defense mechanisms
August Aichhorn attempted to use psychoanalysis to uncover the unconscious motives of who engaging in delinquent behavior?
juveniles
What evolves during individual development when restrictions, mores, and values of society are learned?
superego
According to Eysenck, for neurotics, the biological link is in the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system, which involves what?
fight and flight reactions
Individuals with high psychoticism are characterized as being…?
aggressive
According to Kohlberg, what level of morality involves designating what is considered “right” and “wrong” according to those in authority; rewards and punishments are key components?
preconventional
A central feature of Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory is that moral development occurs in what?
stages
According to Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, which stage would believe in punishments based on “an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth?”
Stage 2
When faced with the Heinz Dilemma, an individual might decide that it is morally right to steal the medicine for his wife because preserving life is of utmost importance. Such an individual is at which Stage of moral development?
6
What attachments are enduring and persistent, and can sometimes last throughout a person’s life?
Duration