SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Flynn Effect, Social Rejection, Radical Change
24 Apr 2018
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Chapter 4 textbook notes- psychological factors and criminal behaviour behaviour. Low intelligence most often used characteristic to explain criminal and delinquent. Fell out of favour when research using iq tests showed little or no difference in intelligence between criminals and non criminals. Personality- emotions and behavioural attributes that tend to remain stable as individual moves from situation to situation personality. Some researchers use personality tests to attempt to measure different aspects of. Other researchers focus on specific personality characteristics associated with crime and delinquency (e. g. , antisocial personality and impulsivity) Said deteriorations of the common stuck must be resisted by segregating inferior people in institutions and not allowing them to introduce. Large # small tasks related to everyday life and involving basic processes, arranged in ascending difficulty. Scale revised when concept of mental age was added. Mental age should be divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100, results = intelligence quotient.
