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1.2 Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs

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Researchers adapt Cooper and Mackie's procedure for children attending a holiday club. Each child is allocated to one of the following activities and completes only that activity:

  • watching a short cartoon in which characters hit one another
  • watching a short cartoon in which the same characters cooperate
  • completing a paper-and-pen word search

Immediately afterwards, each child has a five-minute free-play session with a selection of toys. An observer records the time in seconds that the child spends playing with a foam sword.

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Describe the independent variable in this experiment.

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b.

Describe how the dependent variable is measured in this experiment.

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c.

Describe the experimental design used in this experiment.

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1.2 Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Psychology
  3. /1.2 Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs

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.

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