PSYC 475 Quiz Theories
PSYC 475 Quiz: Theories of Criminal Conduct
Covers the Textbook material from Module 1: Week 1.
- Define what is meant by inter-individual differences and provide two examples of such differences from the Cambridge Study on Delinquent Development.
- Social class has often been seen as a major correlate of crime. What is the evidence in support of this statement?
- Agnewa’s (1992) General Strain Theory proposes the following path to crime:
- Mainstream, traditional theories of criminology have predicted
- Learning to rationalize breaking the law
- Intra-individual differences refer to differences
- Hirschia’s theory deals with
- When a child feels guilty for stealing, the source of the cost is
- A subtractive reward ___________ behavior.
- Differential association theory views criminal behavior as the result of
- According to limited opportunity theory, the mode of adaptation that explains criminal behavior is
- Observing that your friend becomes aggressive only when drinking is an example of observing
- GPCSL views behavior as a function of
- That criminal behavior is positively correlated with having delinquent friends is predicted from
- A subtractive cost ___________ behavior.
- According to the text, one of the major â mythsâ of mainstream criminology has been that
- A punishment or cost is a stimulus that
- A major characteristic of the psychology of criminal conduct is the emphasis upon
- Most past studies of the class “crime relationship have
- Recklessa’s (1967) containment theory emphasizes the following as a buffer from a criminogenic environment:
- In a PCC, variability is evidenced by
- The working definition of criminal behavior within PCC refers to actions that