Chapter 1
Give me an example of a status offense.
Running away
Curfew violations
Underage drinking/smoking
Skipping school
Name two social risk factors.
Poverty
Early peer rejection
Association with antisocial peers
Inadequate pre-school child care
Inadequate after-school care
School failure
True or False
All those with the MAOA-L gene exhibit violent behavior
False
The Office clip we watched in class is an example of ____________ ____________.
classical conditioning
What is criminal behavior?
Behavior in violation of the criminal code (formal norm) that is intentional & w/out justification or excuse
What is affective empathy?
Ability to experience another’s emotions
______ is the theory that certain spots on the skull signify particular conditions
Phrenology
Give me an example of positive punishment.
Adding something (bad)
What is Classical Theory (deterrence)?
Weigh anticipated pleasure vs. anticipated punishment
Free will
Decision to violate law is choice
_____ __________ is one of the strongest predictors of involvement in antisocial behavior.
Peer rejection
According to the NOVA documentary:
a) Environmental and genetic factors together can produce a violent mind.
b) Violent brains show less activity at rest.
c) Having the warrior gene means you will develop violent behavior.
d) 1/2 of the population has the warrior gene.
e) The warrior gene is associated with less activity in the amygdala.
a) Environmental and genetic factors together can produce a violent mind.
Operant and social learning originated from a school of psychological thought called:
behaviorism
_____________ criminology focuses on groups & society as a whole & how they influence criminal activity and _____________ criminology focuses on how individual criminal behavior is acquired, evoked, maintained, & modified.
Sociological; psychological
Describe Synder and Patterson’s enmeshed parenting style.
Parent takes extraordinary control over kid’s life
Can use harsh yet inconsistent discipline (ineffective)
Early onset persistent antisocial behavior is influenced by ________ factors, while late onset offending is influenced by ________ factors.
biological; social
What is the self-serving bias?
The tendency to attribute good things about ourselves to dispositional factors and bad things to external factors
What is the hierarchy rule?
In the UCR program, the rule that requires that only the most serious crime in a series be reported in the crime statistics.
Strategies employed by parents to achieve specific academic, social, or athletic goals are called parental ________; whereas parental attitude toward the child and the emotional climate of the parent-child relationship refers to parental ________.
practices; styles
Name three executive functions.
Reasoning
Logic/Problem-solving
Abstract thinking
Self-control
Describe Zimbardo's Prison Experiment. What were Zimbardo’s conclusions about human behavior, based on this experiment?
Power of the situation