Welcome to Psychology

What you need to know Welcome to Psychology stuff Follow AQA Specification (1st Year ) Paper 2- Approaches, Biopsychology Psychopathology & Research Methods (1st Year) Paper 1- Memory, Attachment, Social Psychology [& Research Methods]. (2nd Year) Paper 3- Options paper + Research Methods + Issues and Deabte

What you need to do Get a folder (lever arch--- the bigger the better). Start looking at the text book (see last slide) Do bridging the gap homework Don’t be horrible Enjoy your summer

The Psychodynamic Approach Who is Freud? Psychoanalysis The Oedipus & Electra Complexes https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=iH_PRnY7Jkw What the flip???!!!

Social Psychology Milgram- Lessons in obedience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= yr5cjyokVUs Bystander Intervention Deindividualtion

Forensic Psychology Criminal Profiling Criminal Identification and EWT Police Interrogations Jury selection Institutionalisation Reoffending rates Controlling and curing criminality

Criminal Profiling: There are six main factors of analysis that criminal profilers investigate: Offender risk – look at the risk that the offender took while committing the crime. Were they likely to be interrupted? Be seen? Did they choose a target that is surrounded by security? How likely were they to be caught? Can often see emotional maturity and criminal experience when looking at offender risk. Location Factors – you want to ask: where was the victim first approached? Where did the crime occur? Where was the victim killed and disposed of? Where was the other evidence? Offenders want to get rid of the most incriminating evidence first – the body. So what they do with it tells a lot. It often indicates where they travelled from, and if they have the ability to transport a victim. Time factors – look at the time the crime took place at, the time required to kill the victim, dispose of the victim. Different amounts of time are often spent on victims (if there is more than one) which can be telling. Did the offender focus on one activity over a second one? Crime type – the number of victims, the events that took place, the type and style of the crime, if there have been similar crimes, and if there are multiple locations. Need to look at the individual significance and the overall big picture. Intent and Motive – was it a family dispute, criminal enterprise (robbery for personal gain), emotional (revenge), sexual, was it planned and premeditated? Need to find out the offender’s primary and secondary motivation. Victimology – look at the victim’s age, occupation, lifestyle, personality, physical characteristics, ability to resist, family structure, relationships, activities. Need to find out if the victim was “high risk” or “low risk”. High risk would be substance abusers, and other criminals, low risk would be children, elderly, law abiding citizens. It is expected that a high risk person will be a victim more often because of the people they associate with.

Case Study- The mad bomber When the police of Manhattan had no idea where to next look in their search for the Mad Bomber, they turned to Brussel who was a psychiatrist with skills as a handwriting analyst. Brussel studied the letters the suspect had sent to newspapers, politicians and a utility company, and came to the conclusion that since the first letter had been sent to the utility company Consolidated Edison, it was most likely that the offender had been an employee there at one time and held a grudge. Following a logical progressions of clues, Brussel concluded that the Mad Bomber was probably a male European immigrant who was Roman Catholic, between the ages of 40 and 50, a loner living with an older female in an ethnic community, could be polite and quiet but had trouble managing his anger and would often wear an old fashioned suit. Using the profile, the police were able to publish it in the newspaper and fool the Mad Bomber into revealing himself. The police made an arrest in 1957 and the man fit several of the characteristics described in Brussel’s psychiatric analysis proving that there was some validity in criminal profiles.

Gender Are you male or female?

Bridging the Gap Pick a topic from today and answer the corresponding question- Try to cite real Psychological research if possible, or real life examples. Make sure your spelling and grammar is spot on Aim for 2 sides of A4 I like pictures and colour The Psychodynamic Approach- Has Freud helped or hindered Psychology? Gender- Men are more intelligent than women. Discuss Social Psychology- Can we really get anyone to do anything? Forensic Psychology- Criminals are born not made. Discuss

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