PSYC 164 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Psychodynamics, List Of Middle-Earth Elves, Mood Disorder
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Psychological theories focus on association among intelligence, personality, learning and criminal behavior. Psychodynamic theory: centered on the notion that indi"s early childhood experiences influence his/her likelihood for committing future crimes. Behavioral theory: social learning and behavior modeling. Cognitive theory: major premise of which suggests that indi"s perception and how it is manifested. Charles goring diff between crime and flawed intelligence. No physical diff between noncriminals and criminals. Criminals = more likely to be insane and unintelligent. Psychodynamic theory: indi"s personality is controlled by unconscious mental process that are grounded in early childhood. Id: primitive part of person"s mental makeup that is present at birth. Drives for food, sex and other necessities over life span. Ego: dev early in a person"s life; compensates for the demand of id by guiding indi"s actions or behaviors to keep him/her w/in boundaries of society. Superego: dev as person incorporates moral standards and values of community, parents, etc.
