Week 6: Psychological Theories Flashcards by Tash Lee

Key thinker for Psychopath:

R___ ____

Robert Hare

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Key thinker for Criminal Personality & Biosocial Theory:

H____ _____

= Hans Eysneck

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What is psychoanalytical theory:

= In the ____

= In the mind of the criminal

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What are the 3 parts that Freud ORIGINALLY stated our-mind was made up of:

= Conscious
=Preconscious
= Unconscious

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What is the Phallic stage:
= Age:
= Focuses on:
= \_\_\_\_\_ starts to develop
= What complex starts to develop

= Age 5
= Genitals
= superego
= Oedipus & Electra

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What are the 3 OTHER parts Freud later elaborated about our human psyche/ personality:

= ID
=Ego
= Superego

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What is the ANAL stage:
= Age:
= Focuses on:
= what starts to develop:

= 3 years old
= Fouses on Anus
= Ego begins to develop
= pooing

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What is the Oral stage:
= Age:
= Focuses on:
= How

= Infant
= Focuses on mouth and libido
= bitting & sucking

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What are the 4 psychosexual stages:

= Oral
=Anal
= Phalic
= Latency

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What is the EGO:

____ Thinking

= Rational thinking
= conscious part of the mind
= seeks to pleasure the ID’s wants

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What is the ID:

=Driven ____

= Driven by it’s pleasures
= impulsive
= unconscious
“i want it now”

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What is the Latency stage:
= Age:
= Focuses on: ____ Dormancy
= what starts to develop: Sexual ____

= 12-13 (puberty)
= Period of psychosexual dormancy
= Sexual impulses repressed into the unconscious mind

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What is the Oedipus & Electra Complex:

= Boy starts to develop sexual desires for the mother and is jealous of the father
= Girl starts to develop sexual desires for the father and is jealous of the other

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What is penis envy:

=Daughter/ son has sexual desires for their mother/father and ants to be like them and have the same parts as them

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What s castration Anxiety:

= When the boy is afraid that his father will cut his penis off because of the desires he has for his mother

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What does the ego and the superego do together:

=Keeps the ID in check

= contains the impulses of the ID

What are the 2 parts of the SuperEgo:
= Strives ___
= Conscious of what is _____

= strives to be the ideal self
= conscious of what is right and wrong
= the moral part of the brain

What is amoral:

= Not _____

= Not concerned with what is morally right or wrong

What is Personality trait theory: ?? give examples aswell
= A
= A
=I

= Abnormal personality traits
=agressive
=Asocial
=Impulsive

Explain "Warrens" (1983) 2 levels:
Level 2:
- A
-A
Level 4:
- Acting o\_\_\_

Level 2: Asocial & aggressive

Level 4: Acting out

What does (CPI) stand for:
How is it measured: Variations of : (3) possible answers

= California psychological Inventory

= through variations of: dominance. tolerance & sociability

What is (MMPI) stand for: 
What does it measure:(3) possible. D\_\_, H\_\_\_, P\_\_\_
By who: S\_\_\_\_ H\_\_\_

= Minnesota Malphasic Psychological Inventory
= Depression, hysteria, paranoia
= Starke Hathaway

What is PPI: only measures?

What is PPI-II, what does it measure: Im___, Eg___

PPI: Only personality traits not behavioural

PPi-II: Impulsive, Egocentric

According to Hare (1999):
= Around ____% of all male/ female prisoners are psychopaths
= Around ___% of all crime committed is by psychopaths

= Around 20% of all male/ female prisoners are psychopaths

= Around 50% of all crime committed is by psychopaths

How does one become a psychopath: (2) factors =S__ =B___

= Social factors | = Behaviourism

Who is the chief proponent of Psychopath:

= Robert Hare

What are the 2 key psychopathic symptoms: 1= g___, Lack of ___ 2 = I____ behaviour = Need for s____

1 = Glib (shallow), Lack of sympathy 2 = Impulsive behaviour = need for stimulus

The Psychopathic Personality: = What is is when some is psychopathic? (2) possible answers = the traits are: Craves_____, Lack____, Cant form___

=asocial & agressive = craves excitement = lack of empathy = cant form emotional ties

Does Hare prefer "Psychopath" or "Sociopath"? why?

= He prefers sociopath because it is a mixture of biological and genetics that contribute to the psychopath syndrome

What is the (FFM): Robert Merton & Paul Costa = How does it work: = What did it lead to: = Was there empirical data

= Five Factor Model = Examines the words people use to describe themselves and others, to uncover their personality traits = OCEAN =Yes

What does OCEAN stand for:

``` = Openness = Concietious =Extraversion = Agreeableness =Neuroticism ```

What is the cause of criminality:

= Abnormal personality traits

=Criminality are symptoms of _____ behaviour: Not adjusting to the situation = Most theorists believed that criminal acts are just expressions of ______ guilt. the criminal want's to be ___!

= maladaptive = Unresolved = Caught