CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Diminished Responsibility, Language Disorder, Attachment Theory
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Lack of attachment: bo(cid:449)l(cid:271)(cid:455)"s atta(cid:272)h(cid:373)e(cid:374)t theor(cid:455, early infant/caregiver relationship has major impact on future social relationships. Infant attachment is: secure, responsive caregivers; become psych healthy adults good relationships, empathize with others, good self-regulation. Insecure: anxious/ambivalent not much exploration to new environment: overbearing and inconsistent parents, as adults desire close relationships but worry. Language deficiencies language helps facilitate problem solving and academic performance, maintain self-control and self-regulation as well. Increase risk of antisocial behaviour: brownlie (2004): 5 year-old boys w/ language impairment much more delinquent at age. 19: may have indirect effect on delinquency difficulty to express themselves (hard to be resolutions of conflict), hard to follow at school, academic and social development, peer rejection, teachers, frustration. Intelligence tests popular because reliable and predictive of academic achievement: strong genetic component, average iq = 100; intellectual deficiency: iq < 70. Inverse relationship between iq & delinquency iq goes up, delinquency goes down.