GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
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Question
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Crime is the result of modelling and imitating the behaviour
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Crime is a result of faulty thinking and decision making
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Crime is the result of seeing an individual being rewarded
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cognitive theories of crime explain criminal behavior as a defect in moral thinking, thought processes, and mental development. Cognitive theories also help us to understand how an individual’s personality and intelligence level are linked to delinquency.
Detailed explanation-2: -The cognitive model of crime and delinquency holds that criminal behavior is associated with cognitive deficits–that many offenders have had developmental delays in the acquisition of a number of cognitive skills which are essential to social adaptation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Impersonal cognition may have a role in the development of criminal behaviour. Thus, for example, if delinquents are compared with non-delinquents they tend towards lower IQ mean scores particularly on Verbal IQ (West & Farrington, Reference West and Farrington1973).
Detailed explanation-4: -By contrast, the cognitive side of fear of crime includes public perceptions of the likelihood of falling victim, public senses of control over the possibility, and public estimations of the seriousness of the consequences of crime.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cognitive theories are characterized by their focus on the idea that how and what people think leads to the arousal of emotions and that certain thoughts and beliefs lead to disturbed emotions and behaviors and others lead to healthy emotions and adaptive behavior.