Psychological Explanations - Psychodynamic

Question 1

What does the psychodynamic approach state?

Answer 1

early experiences and the innate driver (tripartite) create the adult personality

Question 2

What does the psychodynamic approach suggest?

Answer 2

early childhood experiences and innate driver can lead to criminal behaviour

Question 3

What are the key parts of the psychodynamic explanation?

Answer 3

Bowlby’s maternal deprivation theory

Blackburns (1993) superego

Question 4

maternal deprivation - critical period

Answer 4

attatchment must form before age 2

Question 5

maternal deprivation - continuity hypothesis

Answer 5

the idea that if attachment isn’t formed before critical period, negative effects will follow into child later life

Question 6

maternal deprivation - intellectual development

Answer 6

maternal deprivation can lead to mental retardation (abnormal low IQ)

Question 7

maternal deprivation - emotional development

Answer 7

maternal deprivation lead to emotion problems

Question 8

What is Bowlby’s key study?

Answer 8

44 thieves

Question 9

describe 44 thieves study

Answer 9

interviewed for signs of affectionless psychopathy

families interviewed to discover any separation/deprivation

Question 10

Bowlby’s 44 thieves - findings

Answer 10

14/44 classified as affection-less psychopaths

12 experiences prolonged separation during critical period

non-criminal group (disturbed peeps) - 2 had separation

Question 11

What does the 44 thieves findings suggest?

Answer 11

effects off maternal deprivation can lead to offending behaviour

Question 12

Describe superego

Answer 12

‘moral compass’

Question 13

Why is our superego more likely to be involved in criminal behaviour?

Answer 13

its concerned w/ right and wrong

Question 14

Who suggested that under/over development of superego can lead to offending behvaiour?

Answer 14

Blackburn (1993)

Question 15

Define strong superego

Answer 15

usually law abiding

desire for sex leads to strong feelings of anxiety and guilt

therefore have an unconscious drive to perform criminal acts to satisfy superego need to be punished

Question 16

Define deviant superego

Answer 16

When the child have a deviant role model, their morals will be skewed.

This will lead to offending behaviour

Question 17

Which superego links to the oedipus conflict?

Answer 17

deviant superego

Question 18

How does the deviant superego link to the oedipus conflict?

Answer 18

the boys model is the father,

therefore if the father is deviant, the son will imitate

Question 19

Define weak superego

Answer 19

When the ID takes over (underdeveloped superego)

if same-sex parent is not present during phallic stage, cannot internalise fully formed superego

resulting in offending behaviour