Eysenck's criminal personality
Across
- 2. A technique that was used by Farrington to measure the cortical arousal of extraverts and introverts that cast doubt on the physiological basis of Eysenck’s work. (1,1,1)
- 9. According to the biological basis of Eysenck’s theory, this would be underactive in extraverts (7,6)
- 10. The processes that Eysenck believed personality was linked to criminality via. (13)
- 12. The type of behaviour of somebody who is highly neurotic (13)
- 15. The process of learning about reinforcements and punishments that those with criminal personalities cannot develop leading to antisocial behaviours. (12)
- 16. This researcher found evidence in support of Eysenck’s theory by comparing 2070 male prisoners’ scores on the EPI with 2422 male controls. (7)
- 18. It has been suggested that personalities can change on a daily basis and therefore, there is no such thing as personality in this sense. (6,6)
Down
- 1. The type of theory that Eysenck developed (11)
- 3. The type of behaviours that an extravert would be likely to engage in (4-6)
- 4. A type of bias within Eysenck’s work which questions the generalisability of his theory, following research with Hispanic and African-American criminals that found lower E scores than a non-criminal control group. (8)
- 5. A psychologist that criticised Eysenck’s theory and found contradictory evidence in E and N scores. (10)
- 6. Extraversion may be broken down into sociability and this factor which is more likely to be linked to criminal tendencies. (11)
- 7. Somebody high on this dimension would be prone to unstable moods, depression and anxiety (11)
- 8. A type of determinism that Eysenck’s theory suffers from. (10)
- 11. Somebody with a high psychoticism score would be classed as being cold, unemotional and prone to this. (10)
- 13. The technique adopted by Eysenck to measure the criminal personality by locating participants along the E and N dimensions. (1,1,1)
- 14. The third dimension that was later added to Eysenck’s theory (12)
- 17. A trait that Eysenck linked to crime that was based upon the amount of stimulation required from the environment (11)