practical

Question 1

aim of criminal practical

Answer 1

• To use a questionnaire to investigate whether male or female have different views on criminal behavior.
• To find out if females are more lenient than males when giving custodial sentences.

Question 2

criminal hypothesis

Answer 2

• men will give longer custodial sentences in years to females who will give lesser in scenario in questionnaire.
• There will be no difference in male and female in number of years of custodial sentence in scenario of questionnaire any difference will be due to chance.

Question 3

IV and DV of criminal

Answer 3

• gender of male and female
• length of custodial sentences given to offenders in years

Question 4

ethics in criminal

Answer 4

-informed consent gained by telling the ppt practical was about public perceptions of judicial sentencing of offenders.
- protection from harm done by using 2 scenarios of robbery than sensitive cases like rape to prevent distress.
- privacy and confidentiality maintained by only asking personal characteristic of gender and not name or information about identity.

Question 5

procedure of criminal

Answer 5

1. questions were created and scenario of robbery chosen by the entire class as it wasn’t a sensitive offence and was used to gather quantitative and qualitative data and close and open ended questions before appearing in questionnaire.
2. pilot study was conducted on the robbery scenario looking at severity of sentences in men and women and was done to make any improvements. Length on scenario shortened and problems with gender roles.
3. updated questionnaire made scenario shorter with gender neutral terms
4. the sample was of 24 teachers, men and women of all age gathered through an opportunity sample and completed questionnaires in the staff room.
5. questionnaires were given to teachers in the staff room at a time, given at same time and same place to prevent situational variables.

Question 6

Mann-Whitney U

Answer 6

• independent groups design of male and female
• collecting interval data of length in years of custodial sentences.
• difference in male and female sentencing.

Question 7

conclusion of criminal

Answer 7

• women gave a lower custodial sentence to criminal offence this is seen with them having a lower range of 4 when giving a sentence. the low score can be due to gender expectation of woman being empathetic from society to them being more lenient towards severity of sentencing.

Question 8

aim of clinical

Answer 8

To investigate how do different sources report mental health?

Question 9

procedure of clinical

Answer 9

• in 2 groups psychology students had to come up with negative and positive attitudes to schizophrenia and then as a whole class discuss categories together and their meaning trial run on the categories were tested using an article where positive and negative attitudes had to be tallied to show time category popped up.
• students had to type in 5 keywords related to schizophrenia and type in in the search engine and find an article from a legitimate source.
• 3 of 15 articles selected through random sampling with all students names in a hat and chosen ones articles used.
• Students had to highlight positive and negative attitudes in the article independently and tally how many times a category shows up.
• content analysis done on the phrases.
• as a class decided on average positive and negative attitudes found in each article and chi-squared done on results.

Question 10

results of clinical

Answer 10

• the article of university student taking LSD and killing girlfriend showed on average 2 positive and 5 negative attitudes.
• article on rise of psychosis in England had an average of 7 positives and 2 negative attitudes

Question 11

conclusion of clinical

Answer 11

• overall from the 3 articles media portrays mental health in positive light and attitudes with average of 15 compared to 9 negative attitudes which is statistically significant