Unit Topic 3 Individualistic Theories

Question 1

What does social learning theory use to explain why people commit crime?

Answer 1

It can suggest how one’s environment/influence of others can nurture them into criminals

Question 2

Give a example of a social learning theory?

Answer 2

Banduras The Bobo Doll experiment

Question 3

Give another example of a social learning theory?

Answer 3

Differential association

Question 4

What is differential association?

Answer 4

Proposed by Sutherland 1939 explains that people learn to become offenders from their environment and nurture into criminals from the behaviours learned

Question 5

a strength of learning theories (i.e. differential association)

Answer 5

the theory of differential association can be applied to explain gang culture and their behaviours

Question 6

a weakness of learning theories (i.e. differential association)

Answer 6

can only explain why offenders commit crimes they witness and not the ones they don’t

Question 7

a strength of banduras bobo doll experiment

Answer 7

good evidence is provided from a highly controlled lab experiment that resulted in replicated results in other studies.

Question 8

a weakness of banduras bobo doll study?

Answer 8

lacks ecological validity (the range at which test results can be applied to the real world) as it is a highly controlled lab experiment