Short Answer Questions (10 pts each) Answer each of the following questions thor

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Short Answer Questions (10 pts each) Answer each of the following questions thoroughly, Points are determined by both the content of your answers as well as the use of appropriate college level writing skills (e.g. watch typos or grammatical errors). 1) How does Robert Merton's Strain Theory explain crimes of the rich and powerful? 2) Describe at least two reasons why ADHD might easily be over or misdiagnosed. 3) Describe how the case of Phineas Gage was relevant to the chapter 3 discussion/topic. either one of them could explain criminal behavior. Extra Credit (4 pts): Discuss/describe the main points of one of the videos watched in class. Summarize its main points and if you think that the theory on criminal behavior, which was presented, was accurate? Why or why not?

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1. Robert merton’s Strain theory of deviance states that the individuals living in a society are put pressure by the society such that they should achieve particular goals. This pressure occurs even when the individuals do not have particular means so as to achieve those goals, and this results in strain in the minds of these people, such that people would commit crimes such that they would want to achieve those goals. This is very much understood in case of poor people. But for the riches, this occurs when some people are asked to work in offices and societies, where they wouldn’t be able to adjust and would have to work under pressure such that they would live up to the dreams.

2. ADHD is misdiagnosed because many of the doctors chose ADHD as the easiest diagnosis by most of the doctors and hence it is overly diagnosed, as the doctors only focus on hyperactivity and tend to ignore the other symptoms. Also, there are various symptoms that coincide with the symptoms of ADHD, and hence camouflage themselves within ADHD. Anxiety and learning disability might be undetected.

4. Classical conditioning vs operant conditioning.

Classical conditioning is the basic form of learning in which there is a stimulus that provides an in born response to a situation, that comes from a previous experience, not relative to the present situation, but giving rise to a response; whereas operant conditioning is a behaviour learning type. Learning are related to voluntary actions, where certain stimuli, elicit or encourage or discourage a behaviour, such as rewards and punishments.

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