classic study- Raine

Question 1

What was his aim?
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Answer 1

To see if their is a difference between NGRI murderers and controls

Question 2

What was his sample?
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Answer 2

41 NGRI murderers
41 controls- matched on age, education and medical diagnosis

Question 3

What was the procedure?
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Answer 3

All p’s given a PET scan , had to do a visual targeting task, after 10 mins they were injected with a radioactive tracer , after 32 mins they had a PET scan

Question 4

What were the results?
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Answer 4

more activity in the right amygdala
pre-frontal cortex lower activity

Question 5

What was his conclusion?
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Answer 5

There is a difference in brain glucose metabolism in certain areas between NGRI murderers and controls

Question 6

Strengths
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Answer 6

standardised procedure of the same timings and radio active tracer - can be repeated
Findings are reliable

Question 7

Weaknesses
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Answer 7

Small sample size- androcentric - cannot generalise findings to females

Question 8

Strengths
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Answer 8

Matched pairs- gender, age and medical diagnosis- reduces participant variables- increases validity

Question 9

Weaknesses
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Answer 9

Lab setting- lacks ecological validity- lowers validity of the findings