Exam 6: Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior

_________ theory focuses on the area of cognitive science, including the process of moral development and diseases of the mind.

Discuss the importance of assessing dangerousness, the development of empirically-based risk assessment and classification tools, and the difficulties associated with defining dangerousness.

Offenders adjudicated "guilty but mentally ill" generally are sent directly to prison to serve their sentence.

Behavior theory has been criticized for ignoring the role that ________ plays in human behavior.

Choosing crime as a form of empowerment is an example of _______ adaptation.

__________ examined social learning with an emphasis on conditioning.

The ___________ is a standard for judging legal insanity that requires that offenders did not know what they were doing, or if they did, that they did not know it was wrong.

Stress may lead to aggression toward oneself as well as toward others.

Psychological ___________ involves attempts to understand and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders, based on behavioral clues they provide.

According to attachment theorists, what is the single most important factor leading to conformity?

Explain the early concept of a psychopath and identify some of the defining characteristics. What is the relationship of sociopathy and antisocial personality disorder? What are some possible causes of antisocial personality disorder?

Discuss the theory underlying the belief that violent video games may influence behavior and explain the basic argument.

The __________ holds that individuals cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions if at the time of the crime they did not know what they were doing or did not know that their actions were wrong.