Assignment: Cognitive Aspects of Criminal Behavior
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QUESTION 1
Which concept from social information processing theory best applies to the following scenario?
Javier is 13 years old and regularly watches professional wrestling on television. He is excited to watch a wrestling match later in the day, even though his mother has forbidden him from doing so until after he finishes his homework. Javier does not complete his homework and, since his mother is not home, decides to watch the wrestling match anyway. Later, his younger sister, Tonya, pretends to call his mother and tell her he never finished his homework. Believing she is making the phone call, Javier becomes very angry and uses a wrestling move to slam Tonya to the floor, giving her a severe concussion.
A.
Attribution
B.
Response evaluation
C.
Priming
D.
Outcome expectations
QUESTION 2
Which cognitive concept best applies to the following scenario?
Ray is 22 years old and unemployed. He lives in his mother’s basement just outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Recently, there was a hurricane that caused significant damage to the houses and businesses in the center of town. Ray’s friends decide to loot some of the businesses, and at first Ray declines to participate. Then, after watching the news and seeing that many people are looting, Ray decides to join his friends, ultimately stealing electronics and expensive athletic apparel from abandoned stores.
A.
Deindividuation
B.
Spreading activation
C.
Dehumanization
D.
Displacement of responsibility
QUESTION 3
Which type of criminal thinking is reflected in the following scenario:
Heather is a teaching assistant who works one-on-one with children with special needs. She barely makes enough money to live on and decides to steal other people’s credit cards to make extra money. She believes that stealing is okay—just until she is more financially stable. She also reminds herself that she does such good work for the community, parents, and the special needs children that stealing a little “here and there” will enable her to keep the low-paying job.
A.
Cutoff
B.
Sentimentality
C.
Entitlement
D.
Super-optimism
QUESTION 4
Which stage of moral reasoning does the following scenario reflect?
Debra is a high school teacher and notices that one of her students seems to be suffering from strep throat. She asks the student if he has seen a doctor, and he says that his parents refuse to take him. Debra has recently learned that an untreated strep infection can travel to the brain, causing damage. Therefore, she decides to take the student to an urgent care clinic, pretends that he is her son, and uses her insurance to pay for the visit and the antibiotics. Debra is later arrested and charged with insurance fraud.
A.
Preconventional
B.
Conventional
C.
Postconventional
QUESTION 5
Which mechanism of moral disengagement best applies to the following scenario?
Marcus and his friends go out drinking and become very intoxicated. On the way to another bar, they see a homeless man sleeping in the doorway of a building. Marcus decides to physically assault the man “for fun,” remarking that he is probably “just a lowlife anyway.”
A.
Deindividuation
B.
Spreading activation
C.
Dehumanization
D.
Displacement of responsibility
