PSYC 3402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heritability, Monoamine Oxidase A, Homicide
26 Apr 2012
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A theory is simply an explanation of a particular phenomenon. Clearly identifies the casual mechanisms and corresponding mediator and moderators underlying the phenomenon of interest is testable and hence falsifiable via hypotheses and predictions is based on empirical data and is modified in response to new data. Possesses interdisciplinary compatibility respects gender ethnicity and culture. Franz gall- father of phrenology; a theoretical perspective positing that there is a relationship between the shape and size of a person"s head and his/her behaviour, personality and mental ability. Cesare lombroso took gall"s work one step further and began comparing criminals and prostitutes to normal segments of the population. Lombroso argued that criminals possess distinctive physical features such as sloping foreheads and twisted lips often not observed in the. He refers to these features as atavisms and proposed that criminals from an evolutionary point of view had more in common with neanderthals than the modern day man.
