In this report I will be discussing many ideas and questions that are linked to serial killers and other cases that I have researched. The aim of this report is be able to research several tragic murder events in the past linked to psychotic killers. To research many psychological behaviours and mental disorders and figure out how they can be linked to psychotic killers. To look into serial killers and research about their murders and discuss and evaluate the similarities and differences between them. To be able to discuss if psychotic killers are a consequence of either nature or nurture. To discuss and outline other factors that may contribute to psychotic killers. During this report, I will not only be attempting to answer my own question,
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Some researchers theorize that serial killers have brain damage or other biological abnormalities that contribute to their actions. Damage to areas like the frontal lobe, the hypothalamus and the limbic system can contribute to extreme aggression, loss of control, loss of judgment and violence. Henry Lee Lucas , who was charged for committing 11 murders had been tested and was found that he had extreme brain damage in those areas, and the reason behind them was childhood abuse, malnutrition and alcoholism. Even though brain damage can be part of your nature, it can also however sometimes appear in your nurture, this is shown from the Henry Lee Lucas’s case. The fact that he was abused in his childhood and that that made him make bad choices such as taking part in alcoholism. This shows that there are psycho people out there who are not only victims of their own nature but are also victimized from there nurture which ends up making it normal for them to commit such crimes. A type of brain injury is trauma brain injury also known as TBI, this is a wound that is left in the brain from a really hard impact with another object. These mostly take part in sports injuries or industrial incidents. TBI I can also damage the chest which means the flow of the blood to the brain is indirectly damaged. The two most important factors of this type of trauma is sex and age. Meaning children and elderly people are …show more content…
This debate within psychology is concerned with the extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited factors (i.e. genetic) or acquired (i.e. learned) characteristics . Studying psychotic killers alongside with nature and nurture means the links between the three are similar and they can answer many questions that are asked by the public. Before coming to a final decision I had asked the public there point of view about whether they think psychotic killers are a consequence of nature or nurture. By looking at the statistics I came up after doing the survey is that most people agree with the fact that psychotic killers are born to be like this. But when I asked them why, most quoted along the lines of ‘no one can just come up with the idea to kill someone because they don’t like them’. Using these answers I did some research and I came up with the question that one can be bought up normal but at some point in their life they have faced a traumatic disaster or an accident that has left them with brain damage or some other sort of disorder that causes them to think abnormally and behave abnormally. When this question was asked to the public not many were ready to answer. To do some further research I asked student in Kings College University, who was currently studying behavior in her
Some researchers theorize that serial killers have brain damage or other biological abnormalities that contribute to their actions. Damage to areas like the frontal lobe, the hypothalamus and the limbic system can contribute to extreme aggression, loss of control, loss of judgment and violence. Henry Lee Lucas , who was charged for committing 11 murders had been tested and was found that he had extreme brain damage in those areas, and the reason behind them was childhood abuse, malnutrition and alcoholism. Even though brain damage can be part of your nature, it can also however sometimes appear in your nurture, this is shown from the Henry Lee Lucas’s case. The fact that he was abused in his childhood and that that made him make bad choices such as taking part in alcoholism. This shows that there are psycho people out there who are not only victims of their own nature but are also victimized from there nurture which ends up making it normal for them to commit such crimes. A type of brain injury is trauma brain injury also known as TBI, this is a wound that is left in the brain from a really hard impact with another object. These mostly take part in sports injuries or industrial incidents. TBI I can also damage the chest which means the flow of the blood to the brain is indirectly damaged. The two most important factors of this type of trauma is sex and age. Meaning children and elderly people are …show more content…
This debate within psychology is concerned with the extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited factors (i.e. genetic) or acquired (i.e. learned) characteristics . Studying psychotic killers alongside with nature and nurture means the links between the three are similar and they can answer many questions that are asked by the public. Before coming to a final decision I had asked the public there point of view about whether they think psychotic killers are a consequence of nature or nurture. By looking at the statistics I came up after doing the survey is that most people agree with the fact that psychotic killers are born to be like this. But when I asked them why, most quoted along the lines of ‘no one can just come up with the idea to kill someone because they don’t like them’. Using these answers I did some research and I came up with the question that one can be bought up normal but at some point in their life they have faced a traumatic disaster or an accident that has left them with brain damage or some other sort of disorder that causes them to think abnormally and behave abnormally. When this question was asked to the public not many were ready to answer. To do some further research I asked student in Kings College University, who was currently studying behavior in her