Happy Monday, all!
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, at 10:30am, cst, we will be introducing Psychological Trait Theory.
To jump start the discussion, how would you describe MY personality? Your thoughts not listed here? Add in the comments!
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The results are in! The internet has spoken, apparently I am perceived as ...
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What? Friendly?
Caring?
Serious?
Yeah, who says!?!
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You like how I put "tough" in there?
Umm, tough grader? Maybe?
C'mon, don't let this "caring" reputation get out, I need everyone to be completely intimidated!
Ha ha, who are we kidding?!
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We are going to take a deep dive into the hidden corners of your mind as we introduce #PsychologicalTraitTheory for Unit 02 of #CRJ105 #Criminology
Let's get a sense of who is on board. If you're following along live, please let me know so I can make the discussion more interactive.
If you're following live, are you ...
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If you're just following along at your own pace, who are you?
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Psychological Trait Theory encompasses various psychological aspects, including
~personality,
~intelligence,
~learning,
~and criminal behavior
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One of my favorite aspects of psychological trait theory is the study of personality.
This concept is something that most of us can understand ... ideally we all have one!
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THINKING CHALLENGE: To better understand personality, would you define personality as ...
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Getting back to my being "caring", but how do you know?
HOW can you tell what my personality is like?
What do I DO that seems friendly / caring?
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Personality is a complex arrangement of behavioral and emotional responses
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The psychoanalytic theory of criminality attributes criminal behavior to:
•A conscience so overbearing that it arouses feelings of guilt
•A conscience so weak that it cannot control the individual’s impulses
•The need for immediate gratification
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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the founder of psychoanalysis
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How many of my followers have studied #Freud previously?
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Many CRJ students have taken psychology (great!) but consider our overview of Freud as a bit of a
(yawn)
... repeat.
Look at it this way, have you ever watched a movie more than once?
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In other words, even if you feel you KNOW #Freud, it's good to refresh
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Freud suggested that an individual’s psychological well-being is dependent on a healthy interaction among the id, ego, and superego
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The #conscious mind is what you are aware of at any moment
Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the #preconscious, what we might today call "available memory"
The largest part by far is the #unconscious.
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So c'mon, give it to me straight, who else talks to themselves?
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That running dialogue of you conversing with yourself is your #conscious.
Believe it or not, the pandemic has caused most of us to talk to ourselves, out loud, more frequently!
~ What's your mother's maiden name?
~ Your childhood phone number?
~ The make & model of your first car?
Information that you can recall, fairly easily, is your #preconscious
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Since this is anonymous ... what is your most unusual fear?
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Other common fears, any apply to you?
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And since I said we were getting deep, have you ever lusted for someone ... you know you shouldn't?
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According to Freud, many of our motivations, drives are unknown to us, as they are deeply rooted in the unconscious
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Freud suggested that an individual’s psychological well-being is dependent on a healthy interaction among the id, ego, and superego
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The id, ego, and superego are the three basic components of the human psyche, according to Freud
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The #id consists of powerful urges and drives for gratification and satisfaction.
The #ego is the executive of the personality, acting as a moderator between the superego and id.
The #superego acts as a moral code or conscience.
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The id does have it's benefits.
I often liken the id to the "Veruca Salt" from Willy Wonka of our personality, it pushes us to pursue our own interests.
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It's the unrestrained id that causes real challenges.
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Freud proposed that criminality may result from an overactive superego or conscience.
In treating patients, he noticed that those who were suffering from unbearable guilt committed crimes in order to be apprehended and punished.
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Despite criticism, three basic principles appeal to psychologists who study criminality.
The actions and behavior of an adult are understood in terms of childhood development
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Behavior and unconscious motives are intertwined, and their interaction must be unraveled if people are to understand criminality.
Criminality is essentially a representation of psychological conflict.
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THINKING CHALLENGE: In Freudian terms, how would you describe your personality?
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THINKING CHALLENGE: In Freudian terms, how would you describe your personality?
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Psychologist Lawrence #Kohlberg, who pioneered moral developmental theory, has found that moral reasoning develops in three phases
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Preconventional level: Children’s moral rules and moral values consist of dos and don’ts to avoid punishment
~ Don't hit your sister
~ Don't talk back
~ Don't tell a lie
~ Don't cheat
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Conventional level: Adolescents typically reason at the conventional level. Here individuals believe in and have adopted the values and rules of society. Moreover, they seek to uphold these rules.
~ Sharing benefits
~ Hate hurts
~ Be kind
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Post-conventional level: Individuals examine customs and social rules according to their own sense of universal human rights, moral principles, and duties.
~ Marijuana is okay/not okay
~ Little white lies don't count
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According to Kohlberg and his colleagues, most delinquents and criminals reason at the #preconventional level.
Kohlberg has argued that basic moral principles and social norms are learned through social interaction and role-playing
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Research has demonstrated that a phenomenon important to social development takes place shortly after the birth of any mammal: the construction of an emotional bond between the infant and its mother.
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Shameless opportunity to show off how wonderful my two children are ... (and everyone else!)
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British psychiatrist John Bowlby has studied both the need for warmth and affection from birth onward and the consequences of not having it
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Bowlby contends a child needs to experience a warm, intimate, continuous relationship with either a mother or a mother substitute in order to be securely attached. When a child is separated from the mother or is rejected by her, anxious attachment results
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And WHO said they had NO reaction to the scene in which Dumbo was taken from his mother last week???
I don't believe it!
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Joan McCord has investigated the relationship between family atmosphere:
~parental self-confidence,
~deviance,
~affection
~and delinquency
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Social learning theory maintains that delinquent behavior is learned through the same psychological processes as any other behavior
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THINKING CHALLENGE: What's one of the most valued lessons you learned from your parents?
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Social learning theory maintains that delinquent behavior is learned through the same psychological processes as any other behavior
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What is a SKILL that you have ... that you can teach other people?
Believe it or not, I could teach you how to ride a MOTORCYCLE!
*Thanks to MY dad!
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Albert Bandura, a leading proponent of social learning theory, argues that individuals learn violence and aggression through behavioral modeling
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Albert Bandura: Children learn how to behave by fashioning their behavior after that of others
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What people learn from direct experience is determined by what they themselves do and what happens to them.
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THINKING CHALLENGE: What is your learning style?
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Hmmm... How do we incorporate direct experience into an online classroom?
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While violence and aggression are learned behaviors, they are not necessarily expressed until they are elicited in one of several ways.
Albert Bandura describes the factors that elicit behavioral responses as “instigators"
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If you have become violent, where do you believe that you learned how to do so?
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Ernest Burgess and Ronald Akers combined Bandura’s psychologically based learning theory with Edwin Sutherland’s sociologically based differential association theory to produce the theory of differential association-reinforcement
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Social learning theory helps in understanding why some individuals who engage in violent and aggressive behavior do so:
~They learn to behave that way.
~Perhaps something within the personality creates a susceptibility to aggressive or violent models in the first place.
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are.
But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits
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Traditionally, the medical profession viewed mental illness as an absolute condition or status ... either one is afflicted with psychosis or one is not.
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Psychologists have found that psychopaths, like Hans Eysenck’s extroverts, have a low internal arousal level; thus, psychopaths constantly seek external stimulation, are less susceptible to learning by direct experience
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Mental illness should not be considered apart from mental health—the two exist on the same continuum.
At various times in people’s lives, they move along the continuum from health toward illness
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The choice between crime and conventional behavior is closely linked to individual biological and psychological traits and to social factors such as family and school experiences
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It has been argued that the insanity defense is a prisoner of a host of myths and symbols rooted in medieval folklore and fundamentalist visions of mental illness and crime.
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According to Wilson and Herrnstein, argue that behavior results from a person’s perception of the potential rewards and/or punishments that go along with a criminal act.
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In class, we watch Beware The Slenderman documentary to take a look at how mental health interweaves with crime
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I feel really good about the material we covered. We could discuss Psychology for the entire 16 weeks of the semester.
What aspects of today's discussion were new for you?
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What aspects of today's discussion would you like to discuss in more detail?
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For my students, please check in below...
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And as always, how would you rate our discussion today?
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If you made it this far, include your favorite family photo with your response for some extra credit. Bonus points if you include YOUR baby photo!
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