Raine et al (1997) Classic Study (BIo)

Adrian Raine studied participants charged with murder and which other crime

• aggravated burglary

• fraud

• manslaughter

• grievous bodily harm (GBH)

Raine's offender group had all pleaded...

• innocent

• guilty

• not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI)

• no guilty

Raine used fMRI scanning to study brain activity in his participants

• true

• false

Raine used PET scanning to measure brain activity in his participants.

• true

• false

Raine aimed to reveal differences in the brains of the offender groups that would support previous research. Which if the following areas was NOT one that interested him?

• prefrontal cortex

• amygdala

• corpus callosum

• brain stem

How many participants were there in each group?

• 41

• 32

• 21

• 82

Raine's study is an example of a quasi experiment as...

• it took place in lab

• he was unable to randomly allocate his participants to the two groups

• it had a repeated measures design

• it used qualitative data

Raine's study is an example of...

• independent measures design

• matched pairs design

• repeated measures design

The dependent variable in Raine's study was...

• glucose metabolism in specific brain regions

• whether the Pps were offenders or non-offenders

• aggression ranked on a 10 point scale

• number of years served in prison

The sample was androcentric as there were...

• only two females in each group

• only people from California USA in the sample

• only two males in each group