the biological approach to criminal behaviour and sough to explain the notion of environmental and social influence on offenders. It is‚ however essential to investigate the theory of how biological analysis is effective in criminality. Also the impact on society and the minds of the offenders is worth examining. This essay will also include the development of biological theories that have been used for centuries as well as the criticisms of those theories. The debate of biological theories and
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University of Phoenix Material Chart of Theories Theory |Key Figures |Key Concepts of Personality Formation |Explanation of Disorder Personality |Validity |Comprehensiveness |Applicability |Cultural Utility | |Psychosocial Humanistic |Erik Erickson Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow |Erickson was interested in childhood development‚ and its effects on adult society. Erikson ’s theory refers to ’psychosocial crisis ’ which represents internal emotional conflict. With the emotional
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The biological approach can be used to explain many thing within health and social care‚ it can also be useful in diagnosing and treating service users‚ and is effective for practitioners to asses and help their patience within heath care and social care alike. The biological approach can have a positive impact on the service user because tests such as the assessment scale are available so that they can fully understand why there behaviour is the way it is‚ and also what is normal and abnormal for
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with the classification and diagnosis of phobic disorders (24 marks) The biological explanation for the acquisition of phobic disorders establishes that phobias are caused by genetics‚ innate influences and the principles of biochemistry. This theory recognizes that an oversensitive fear response may be inherited‚ causing abnormal levels of anxiety. This is illustrated in the basis of inheritance‚ particularly the adrenergic theory that convicts that those who have an acquisition to phobic disorders
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children were raised‚ impacted on their personalities and so on. There are six theories of personality‚ all differing from one to the other‚ yet attempting to understand and describe the structure of personality and to study the individual differences within personality. In other words personality psychologists seek to understand how are people similar but also‚ how they differ. Psychodynamic theories and Humanistic theories will be reviewed‚ compared and contrasted in order to gain a better understanding
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different theories of crime and how they affect the criminal justice system. The Classical School of criminology is a theory about evolving from a capital punishment type of view to more humane ways of punishing people. Positivist criminology is maintaining the control of human behavior and criminal behavior. They did this through three different categories of Biological studies‚ which are five methodologies of crime that were mainly focused on biological theories‚ Psychological theories‚ which contains
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Biological explanation of phobias Genetic factors One biological explanation for the cause of phobic disorders suggests that we can relate it back to our genetics. This theory values the ‘nature’ side in the nature vs nurture debate. This theory uses twin studies to try and separate genetic factors from environmental factors in order to draw a causal conclusion between genetics and phobias. If a closer concordance rate was found between MZ and DZ twins we could suggest a genetic inheritance
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Jean Piaget Cognitive Development Theory Biography: Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel‚ Switzerland on August 9‚ 1986 to Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson. At a young age‚ he displayed great fascination for Biology‚ his intellectual love. Jean Piaget‚ at the age of 10 published his first article‚ which described the albino sparrow he observed. Between the ages of 15 and 18‚ he published several more articles and most of them are mollusks. Jean Piaget was especially
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1a. Outline the clinical characteristics of OCD. [4] The DSM-4 states that for one to be diagnosed with OCD‚ one must have either obsessions‚ compulsions or both. To be diagnosed with having obsessions‚ the patient must have recurring‚ persistent intrusive thoughts that cause marked distress or anxiety‚ and must have insight into the fact that the thoughts are a product of their own mind. To have compulsions‚ the patient must feel the need to repeat physical behaviours‚ which occur as a response
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Aubrey Merrell Gender-G 300 September 20‚ 2012 Biological genitals vs. Cultural genitals When considering the ideas of both sex and gender‚ it is universally understood‚ by most‚ that they are both intertwined; that is to say that gender cannot be discussed without bringing sex into the conversation‚ and vice versa. Here it is understood that the term “sex” is being used to signify the existing genitalia on an individual’s material body‚ and that the term “gender” is relating to markers of
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