individualistic theories Flashcards
learning theory
Bandura’s social learning theory
violence and aggression are produced by
1) an arousal event
2) learning aggression skills
3) expected success rewards
4) pro-violence values
the 3 primary contexts for the skills of violence
family
cultural symbols such as TV
prevalent subculture
supporting research of learning theory
Bandura’s Bobo doll study
what did Bandura test
aggressive and non-aggressive models and how the children acted after
results of banduras study
there was high intimidation and even higher with same sex models
Psychodynamic
Freud’s theory of Psyche
what is the mind made up of ?
conscious, preconscious , unconscious
ID
controls primitive desires which operates on pleasure principle
superego
moral with social constraints
ego
reality principle and delays gratification for realistic goals
weak superego
abnormal relationships or absent same sex parents which can lead to anti-social behaviour
deviant superego
follows the behaviour of a criminal parent and their crimes may reflect their parents crimes
strong superego
commit crimes to relieve impulses from having strict parents
when is psyche developed
in the first 5 years
psychological theory
Eysenck’s criminal personality
what does a high extroversion mean
have an under aroused nervous system so see excitement and don’t learn from mistakes
what does high neuroticism mean
unstable and obsessive
what does high psychoticism mean
cold and lack empathy and are aggressive
what are the 3 personality types for criminals
extroversion
neuroticism
psychoticism
Eysenck and Eysenck study
assessed 2070 male prisoners and compared to 2422 males and measured E,N,P and prisoners scored higher than the control group
what types of crime do each personality do
E - joy riding ‘thrill seeking’
N - stalking
P - pre meditated murder
