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WorksheetsCriminal Psychology Revision (OCR 9-1)
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins
Identify the type of crime...
Sophia has stolen someone's identity to use their credit cards.
Sexual offence
Drug-related offence
Acquisitive offence
Violent offence
Anti-social offence
Identify the type of crime...
Tegan has used a permanent marker to draw all over the displays in the dining hall.
Sexual offence
Drug-related offence
Acquisitive offence
Violent offence
Anti-social offence
Identify the type of crime...
Matty was found selling an ounce of cannabis resin to a classmate.
Sexual offence
Drug-related offence
Acquisitive offence
Violent offence
Anti-social offence
Identify the type of crime...
John was caught using his phone to take pictures up skirts.
Sexual offence
Drug-related offence
Acquisitive offence
Violent offence
Anti-social offence
Identify the ways that we can measure crime.
With a ruler
Official statistics
Self-report
With CCTV cameras
Why is crime considered to be a 'social construct'?
Because people decide if a behaviour is acceptable or not.
Because different cultures view different behaviours as acceptable to society.
Because social media decides if a behaviour is acceptable or not.
Because people plan and carry out crimes.
Identify valid criticisms of using official statistics as a way of measuring crime.
Not all victims of crimes report them to the police.
Statistics can be manipulated to make things sound better than they are.
People can lie when responding to surveys.
Social Learning Theory argues that we learn behaviours from those around us.
Identify the key features of this theory.
Role models, imitation, collaboration, reinforcement, internalisation.
Models, imitation, observation, copying, reinforcement, internalisation.
Models, seeing, copying, rewards, personality.
Role models, identification, observation, imitation, reinforcement, internalisation.
Describe what is meant by 'vicarious reinforcement'.
When a behaviour is strengthened by an individual seeing the same behaviour being rewarded in another.
When a behaviour is strengthened as the individual is rewarded for acting that way.
When an individual pays attention to the behaviours of a role model.
When a behaviour becomes an integral part of an individual's personality.
Social Learning Theory is often criticised for focusing on nature.
True
False
Cooper & Mackie’s (1986) study investigated...
the effect of violent television shows on aggressive behaviour in children.
the effect of seeing a role model hitting a toy on children’s aggressive behaviour.
the effect of violent video games on children’s aggressive behaviour.
the effect of rap music on aggressive behaviour in children.
Cooper & Mackie’s (1986) study...
was a laboratory experiment.
was a natural observation study.
was an independent measures design.
was a repeated measures design.
Identify valid criticisms of Cooper & Mackie’s (1986) study.
It has ethical issues due to deliberately misleading participants.
The validity of the results could be affected due to individual differences of the participants.
The values of the independent variable are too similar.
Pac-Man is a boring game.
Eysenck’s criminal personality theory argues that...
criminal’s score highly in scales of psychoticism, extraversion and self-esteem.
criminal’s score highly in scales of psychopathy, extraversion and self-esteem.
criminal’s score highly in scales of psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism.
criminal’s score highly in scales of psychoticism, extravagance and neuroticism.
Psychoticism is...
how anxious an individual is.
how outgoing a person is.
how confident a person is.
very poor impulse control.
Psychoticism is linked to the overproduction of which neurotransmitter?
Serotonin
Dopamine
Monoamine oxidase
Oxytocin
Extroverts have an under-aroused cerebral cortex because the RAS restricts stimuli.
True
False
The over-arousal of the ANS causes increases in violence in neurotics.
True
False
Eysenck argues that individuals that score highly on extraversion and neuroticism are less resistant to early socialisation.
True
False
Identify valid criticisms of Eysenck’s theory.
It ignores individual differences and is highly deterministic.
Psychoticism is not a cause of criminal behaviour, but actually a definition of it.
It is too focused on nurture.
With such a range of crimes it is unlikely that criminals share a similar personality.
Heaven’s (1996) study used a sample of participants from...
the United States of America.
the United Kingdom.
Austria.
Australia.
Heaven’s (1996) study collected results through...
questionnaires.
observations.
official statistics.
interviews with parents and teachers.
Participants in Heaven’s (1996) study were measured for psychoticism, extraversion, self-esteem and delinquency at the beginning and end of the study.
What was the length of time between the two sets of measurements?
1 year
2 years
3 years
4 years
Attrition is when participants no longer take part in a study.
If 282 adolescents completed the first stage of the study and only 80% completed the last stage of the study. How many participants were lost to attrition?
45
56
67
78
Heaven’s (1996) study found that...
psychoticism causes delinquency.
there was a strong negative correlation between extraversion and delinquency.
males were more likely to engage in delinquent behaviour.
there was a positive correlation between psychoticism and delinquency.
Identify valid criticisms of Heaven’s (1996) study.
Social desirability bias could lead to dishonest answers from the participants.
The sample was culturally biased.
By losing 20% of the original sample, validity was decreased.
Using closed questions and ratings scales oversimplified the complex nature of personality and behaviour, thus reducing validity.
Identify different methods of punishment.
Rehabilitation
Fines / penalty charges
Community service
Prison
Which theory best explains why punishments deter individuals from committing crimes?
Social Learning theory
Eysenck’s Criminal Personality theory
Identify different forms of rehabilitation.
Restorative justice
Drug misuse programmes
Community service
Role models and mentoring
What is recidivism?
A form of punishment.
A form of rehabilitation.
When authorities use violence to punish criminals.
When a criminal reoffends.
