CRIM 300W Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Disorder, Orienting Response, Habituation
8 Sep 2017
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Biological approaches to crime: psychophysiology and brain dysfunction. Psychophysiology: science that deals with the interplay between psychological and physiological processes. Skin conductance activity and crime: variations of the electrical activity of the skin lead to fluctuations in sc activity. Individuals with high sc resting levels (scls) or a relatively large/frequent number of nsfs (nonspecific fluctuations) or both are highly aroused: orienting responses: responses that occur following the presentation of a neutral external stimulus. Raine (1997): some evidence shows that general antisocial behavior is associated with fewer nsfs and lower scls. Sc arousal in various antisocial populations: reduced sc activity during resting situations. Certain types of stimuli are processed more actively than others. Scor occurrence and size provides information about cns functioning by indirectly assessing the allocation of attentional resources to the processing of external stimuli. Significant stimuli are generally expected to elicit large scors.
