Genetic & Neural explanations evaluation

Question 1

what did keyers find?

Answer 1

only when criminals were asked to empathise did their empathy reaction activate - suggest APD indiviudals arent totally without empathy

Question 2

problems with twin studies?

Answer 2

little control - lack validity

small samples

Question 3

support for diathesis stress model?

Answer 3

medenick looked at 13000 danish adoptees
neither adoptee or child had parent as criminal 13.5%
either parent had convictions 20%
24.5% both convictions

Question 4

problems with adoption studies?

Answer 4

many adopted late so most childhood spent with biological parents - difficult to assess environmental impact

Question 5

biological reductionism

Answer 5

too simplistic