CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biopsy, Positivism, Organism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Christopher Greco

Document Summary

Psychiatrist medical doctor that can prescribe medicine. Psychologist phd training in a paricular ield of study not necessarily medical. 19th century asylum: conducted a lot of it"s work in conined and incarcerated context, new opportunity for observaion, treatment and training. 20th century treatment expanded outside the asylum into private pracice. Study of the human mind and its funcions that afect behavior. Science of behavior: key in our emphasis on posiivism which focuses on individual behavior (unlike classical where it was focused on the act itself) Percepion, learning, moivaion, memory, intelligence and personality: trying to igure out how personality has expressed publically and openly on everything else diferent dimensions on mind, body and expressions. Personality of the individual is observable despite aging the personality is sill a relaive aspect of who we are. Claim = criminal behavior originates in the personaliies of ofenders conforming behavior is a relecion of individual.