lecture 3

Question 1

challenges of objective crime rates

Answer 1

what is crime, accurate readings, multiple recording

Question 2

suggests the heavy consumption of mass media (4 hr +) leads to an unrealistic perception of crime rates and subsequent higher level of fear of crime

Answer 2

cultivation theory

Question 3

suggests that fear of crime is the product of a cognitive calculation of 2 factors: (1) the strength of belief about the likelihood of an event, and (2) the perceived level of seriousness of experiencing the event

Answer 3

cognitive theory

Question 4

argued that you can agin an understanding of how people make judgements by examining how they employ a variety of cognitive processes to evaluate social information

Answer 4

social cognitive model

Question 5

vididsness, negativity, primacy

Answer 5

input baises

Question 6

representative heuristic, illusory correlation

Answer 6

processing baises

Question 7

response bias, functional fixedness

Answer 7

output biases