PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Financial Crimes, Frontal Lobe, Impulsivity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 622
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

Document Summary

Prior to the 19th century children and youth treated like adult offenders. Young offenders act (1984) juvenile offenders recognized as cognitively different from adults, diversion programs. Objectives: prevention, responsibility for behaviour, rehabilitation and reintegration of youth. 4, 2 hour sessions; 1/week for a month. Common modules included know your rights and victim empathy: biological theories, cognitive theories, social theories. Genetic and physiological differences between antisocial and non-antisocial youth. Children with an antisocial biological father more likely to be antisocial. Wadsworth (1976): antisocial youth have slower heart rates; higher threshold for excitability and emotionality. Moffitt and henry (1989): less frontal lobe inhibition in antisocial youth; greater impulsivity. Focus on thought process, interpretation of social and emotional cues and responses to them. Cognitive deficits and distortions; limited problem-solving skills in antisocial youth. Link between violent video exposure and aggressive behaviour bx. Standardized tests: require both behavioural observation & multiple informant.