A researcher used the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to place 400 young people into four equal groups. The researcher also recorded whether they had regular contact with close peers who offended. The table shows how many participants in each group reported committing an offence during the following year.
| Personality profile | Regular contact with peers who offended | Number reporting an offence out of 100 |
|---|---|---|
| High extraversion, high neuroticism and high psychoticism | Yes | 44 |
| High extraversion, high neuroticism and high psychoticism | No | 17 |
| Did not score high on all three dimensions | Yes | 29 |
| Did not score high on all three dimensions | No | 6 |
Using the results in the table and your knowledge of Eysenck's criminal personality theory, explain two weaknesses of the theory.
135 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 1.2 Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs, covering 1.2.1 SLT: identification with role models, 1.2.2 SLT: observation and imitation, 1.2.3 SLT: vicarious reinforcement, 1.2.4 SLT: direct reinforcement and internalisation; criticisms, 1.2.5 SLT research study: Cooper and Mackie (1986), 1.2.6 Eysenck's Criminal Personality Theory, 1.2.7 CNS, arousal and criminal personality, 1.2.8 Brain function, synapses and dopamine in psychoticism, 1.2.9 Dopamine reward, RAS and cortex in extroversion, 1.2.10 Autonomic nervous and limbic system in neuroticism, 1.2.11 Early socialisation and conditioning; criticisms, and 1.2.12 Criminal Personality research study: Heaven (1996). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.