Week 6: Psychological Theories

Question 1

Key thinker for Psychopath:

R___ ____

Answer 1

Robert Hare

Question 2

Key thinker for Criminal Personality & Biosocial Theory:

H____ _____

Answer 2

= Hans Eysneck

Question 3

What is psychoanalytical theory:

= In the ____

Answer 3

= In the mind of the criminal

Question 4

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

Answer 4

= Conscious
=Preconscious
= Unconscious

Question 5

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

Answer 5

= Age 5
= Genitals
= superego
= Oedipus & Electra

Question 6

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

Answer 6

= ID
=Ego
= Superego

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What are the 4 psychosexual stages:

Answer 9

= Oral
=Anal
= Phalic
= Latency

Question 10

What is the EGO:

____ Thinking

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is the ID:

=Driven ____

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is the Oedipus & Electra Complex:

Answer 13

= 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

Question 14

What is penis envy:

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What s castration Anxiety:

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What does the ego and the superego do together:

Answer 16

=Keeps the ID in check

= contains the impulses of the ID

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is amoral:

= Not _____

Answer 18

= Not concerned with what is morally right or wrong

Question 19

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

Answer 19

= Abnormal personality traits
=agressive
=Asocial
=Impulsive

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Level 2: Asocial & aggressive

Level 4: Acting out

Question 21

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

Answer 21

= California psychological Inventory

= through variations of: dominance. tolerance & sociability

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is PPI: only measures?

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

Answer 23

PPI: Only personality traits not behavioural

PPi-II: Impulsive, Egocentric

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

= Around 50% of all crime committed is by psychopaths

Question 25

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

Answer 25

= Social factors

= Behaviourism

Question 26

Who is the chief proponent of Psychopath:

Answer 26

= Robert Hare

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Does Hare prefer “Psychopath” or “Sociopath”? why?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What does OCEAN stand for:

Answer 31

= Openness
= Concietious
=Extraversion
= Agreeableness
=Neuroticism

Question 32

What is the cause of criminality:

Answer 32

= Abnormal personality traits

Question 33

=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 ___!

Answer 33

= maladaptive
= Unresolved
= Caught