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1. The document discusses theories of crime causation and key concepts related to understanding human behavior and the importance of theory. It provides examples of philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on human behavior. 2. Questions and answers are provided about human behavior and attitudes, Plato's views on the sources of human behavior, and characteristics and importance of theories. Definitions of key terms like theory, concept, and offshoots are also given. 3. The document serves to outline different frameworks for understanding human behavior and the role of theory in explaining phenomena.

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A Person's Sense of

1. The document discusses theories of crime causation and key concepts related to understanding human behavior and the importance of theory. It provides examples of philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on human behavior. 2. Questions and answers are provided about human behavior and attitudes, Plato's views on the sources of human behavior, and characteristics and importance of theories. Definitions of key terms like theory, concept, and offshoots are also given. 3. The document serves to outline different frameworks for understanding human behavior and the role of theory in explaining phenomena.

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THEORIES OF CRIME CAUSATION

Lesson 2- Concept of human behavior & Lesson 3- the concept of theory and its importance

1. What is not true about human behavior?


A. It describes a person’s attitude toward his/her social environment.
B. It describes a person’s actions and conduct.
C. It refers to the reaction to facts of the relationship between the individual and his environment.
D. It is mainly influenced by both heredity and environment.

VERSUS

BEHAVIOR
ATTITUDE
Manner of conducting oneself;
Manner, disposition, feeling, position,
anything that an organism does
etc., with regard to a person or thing;
involving action and response to
tendency or orientation, especially of
stimulation; the response of an
the mind.
individual, group, or species to its
environment.

2. Mrs. Rea is a police officer, she is also a wife and a mother of two (2) kids. As a police officer she
needs to maintain a stern but calm personality in order to be respected. As a mother, she may
be sweet towards her husband and caring and loving toward her children. Which of the
following is not her moi?
A. Being a police officer
B. A wife
C. A mother of two
D. Loving and caring towards her children

TWO FACES OF EVERY SELF

(Marcel Mauss)
 Moi – a person’s sense of
who he is, his body, and his
basic identity, his biological
givenness.
 Personne – the social
concepts of what it means to
be who he is.
3. Plato believed that human behavior flows from three main sources, except:
A. Desire
B. Reasoning
C. Emotion
D. Knowledge

PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN
BEHAVIOR

 Philosophical
 Psychological
 Sociological

RERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Philosophical – rationalized and


application of wisdom

Socrates – rationalization & nobody


willingly chooses to do wrong
Plato – involves desire, emotion, &
knowledge.

4. Which of the following best describes philosophical perspectives of human behavior?


A. Strict discipline is an essential element in molding future law enforcers.
B. The students are well-behaved whenever their college dean is in campus.
C. Most criminology students are well-mannered because on the disciplinary culture in their
department.
D. In the classes of the dean, no one cheats because of harsh punishment of those who will be
caught cheating.
5. All, but one, are philosophical explanations of human behavior.
A. Human behavior is about the condition for personhood.
B. How you reacted to a certain stimulus.
C. Your behavior is determined how you reasoned out.
D. Nobody willingly chooses to do wrong.
6. Which of the following is not a theory?
A. Poverty causes crimes
B. Crimes are related to low IQ level
C. Flexible learning results to lower learned knowledge
D. Police omnipresence
7. Among the importance of theory, which is not one of them?
A. It provides concepts to name what we observe and to explain relationships between
concepts.
B. It is needed to explain what is being done and demonstrate that it works.
C. It is used to enhance the growth of the professional area to identify a body of knowledge
with theories from both within and without the area of distance learning.
D. It solves problems in different times and different places.

8. What is usually an offshoot of theories?


A. Principle
B. Concept
C. Law
D. Construct

Offshoot – a
branch, or a
thing that
originated or
developed from
something else.
9. The following are true about theories, except:
A. A theory is composed of concepts and principles.
B. A theory is a set of logically related explanatory hypotheses.
C. A theory is a principle or a body of interrelated principles.
D. Theory comes after a law.

10. A theory is any idea. On the other hand, concept in its strictest sense is an underlying
explanation of how something works.
A. Only the first statement is correct.
B. Only the second statement is correct.
C. Both of the statements are wrong.
D. Both of the statements are correct.

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