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Biological and psychological explanations for offending behaviour

Psychology

A Level

AQA

5m 50s

in Issues and options in Psychology

In this podcast we will be looking at biological explanations for offending behaviour, namely atavistic form, the genetic theory and neural explanations, as well as psychological explanations, entailing Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality, cognitive explanations of level of moral reasoning and the cognitive distortions of hostile attribution bias and minimalisation, as well as differential association theory and the psychodynamic explanation.
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Tutors:

Jean Marc Lawton

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

Biological & psychological explanations for offending behaviour - task

  • Listen to the podcast on biological and psychological explanations for offending behaviour and makes notes as you do that will allow you construct a mind map on the topic, which makes reference to:

 

1] Biological explanations of the atavistic form, the genetic theory and neural explanations

2] Psychological explanations of Eysenck’s theory of criminal personality, cognitive explanations of criminality [moral reasoning and cognitive distortions of hostile attribution bias and minimalization], differential association theory and the psychodynamic explanation

 

  • You may find that you need to listen to the podcast more than once to achieve this

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