Eysenck's criminal personality

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Across
  1. 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)
  2. 9. According to the biological basis of Eysenck’s theory, this would be underactive in extraverts (7,6)
  3. 10. The processes that Eysenck believed personality was linked to criminality via. (13)
  4. 12. The type of behaviour of somebody who is highly neurotic (13)
  5. 15. The process of learning about reinforcements and punishments that those with criminal personalities cannot develop leading to antisocial behaviours. (12)
  6. 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)
  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. 1. The type of theory that Eysenck developed (11)
  2. 3. The type of behaviours that an extravert would be likely to engage in (4-6)
  3. 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)
  4. 5. A psychologist that criticised Eysenck’s theory and found contradictory evidence in E and N scores. (10)
  5. 6. Extraversion may be broken down into sociability and this factor which is more likely to be linked to criminal tendencies. (11)
  6. 7. Somebody high on this dimension would be prone to unstable moods, depression and anxiety (11)
  7. 8. A type of determinism that Eysenck’s theory suffers from. (10)
  8. 11. Somebody with a high psychoticism score would be classed as being cold, unemotional and prone to this. (10)
  9. 13. The technique adopted by Eysenck to measure the criminal personality by locating participants along the E and N dimensions. (1,1,1)
  10. 14. The third dimension that was later added to Eysenck’s theory (12)
  11. 17. A trait that Eysenck linked to crime that was based upon the amount of stimulation required from the environment (11)