PSYC39H3 Chapter 1: PSYC39 CHAPTER 1

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In u. k psychological study of criminal behavior is referred to as criminological psychology. Personal, interpersonal and community-reinforcement model: this model posits that criminal behavior reflects the immediate situation , cognitive social learning theory of crime: a learning theory of crime that attends to both social and cognitive factors as well as behavior. Curve [auc] for receiver operating characteristic [roc]), a cohen"s d correlation, or the b1 coefficient from logistic regression: meta-analysis is useful because the aggregated effect size provides a quantitative summary of a large body of research. In meta-analysis, formulae can be used to convert information from one effect size measure into another the conclusions of the meta-analysis are only as strong as the quality of the individual studies that were aggregated. Measuring predictive accuracy: receiver operating characteristic (roc) analysis is a technique for measuring the accuracy of risk assessments by examining false positive and true positives across decision thresholds.