PSYC 3020 Study Guide - Observational Learning, Psychoanalytic Theory, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Theories of criminal behaviour, psychopaths and young offenders. Theories of criminal behavior can be grouped into four categories: biological, psychological, physiological and sociological. This approach is now believed to be too simplistic to explain complexity of crime: central nervous system: cns produces behavior by creating muscular, skeletal and glandular reactions. When neurons disturbed, damaged or drugged, the chemical process is upset and this may result in memory loss, poor judgement, learning failures and under or over reaction to stress. Researchers found abnormal psychological functioning of the cns in approx. 50% of criminals versus 105 of individuals in general population. Read course reader 2. 1 article: hare- psychopathy: a clinical construct. Hare emphasises asocial or anti- social behavior of criminal antisocial personalities is evident in adolescence and continues throughout much of lifespan. Anti- social personality disorder is a behavior pattern in which an individual shows a history of acts of violence toward others, unaccompanied by guilt.