Exam 5: Trait Theories

A person with a ______ may engage is a repeated pattern of cruel and demeaning behavior.

Psychologist Hans Eysneck linked personality to crime when he identified two distinct traits-extroversion-introversion and:

Travis Hirschi is responsible for the creation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test.

Biophobia is the belief that serious consideration should be given to biological factors when attempting to understand human nature.

The view that criminality is a product of abnormal biological and/or psychological traits is known as:

Social learning theory holds that people learn to be aggressive through their life experiences. Which of these is not a source of this behavior-modeling process?

The condition that occurs when glucose levels in the blood fall below what is necessary for normal and efficient brain functioning is known as:

People at the highest stages of moral development refrain from crime because they:

___________________ is a branch of cognitive psychology that focuses on the ways in which people process, store, and encode information to make decisions.

The notion that some individuals may engage in crime because of the attraction of "getting away with it" is known as:

According to Sigmund Freud, which is the primitive part of an individual's mental makeup, present at birth.?

Albert Bandura is most closely linked to social learning theory.

Research shows that people who start drinking by the age of _____ are five times more likely to become alcoholics than people who hold off on drinking until the age of 21.

Explain how violence in the media may contribute to aggression in society.

There is no research link between ADHD and the onset and duration of a criminal career.

Approximately 11 percent of U.S. children aged 4 to 17 are reported by parents to have a diagnosis of ADHD.

The first scientific studies of criminology that applied the positivist model were conducted by _________.