Forensic Psychology Review Questions
Course Introduction
Forensic Psychology explores the intersection between psychology and the justice system, examining how psychological principles and methods are applied within legal contexts. The course covers topics such as criminal behavior, mental health assessments, eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, and the psychological evaluation of offenders. Students will gain an understanding of the role psychologists play in criminal investigations, court proceedings, and the rehabilitation of offenders, as well as ethical issues and current research in the field. The course provides foundational knowledge for those interested in careers related to law enforcement, legal advocacy, counseling, or correctional services.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 11th Edition Curt R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) How does the legal definition of crime limit our understanding of criminal behavior? What role does culture play in one's definition of crime?
Answer: The legal definition is behavior in violation of the criminal code.To be convicted of crime,a person must have acted intentionally and without justification or excuse.Our inability to prevent crime is also partly because we have trouble understanding criminal behavior and identifying and agreeing upon its many cause.Trying to study crime and criminal behavior presents many problems for social scientists.The subjects of study are most typically captive,such as prisoners or delinquents in institutions.They are not necessarily representative of the true criminal population.Likewise,the universe of crime itself defies any attempt at determining "how much" occurs.As we see below,although various methods have been used to do this,none provides sufficient and comprehensive information.
Q2) The legacy definition of rape included rape of males and females. A)True B)False
Answer: False
Q3) NCVS data consistently show that males are most likely to be victimized by
Answer: strangers
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Both the cumulative risk and developmental cascade models emphasize that antisocial behavior can be attributed to the single risk factor of peer rejection.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The dynamic cascade model is distinct from the cumulative risk model in that it emphasizes the ________ among risk factors and their effect on outcomes over the course of development.
Answer: interaction
Q3) Affective empathy usually develops in middle adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) ADHD frequently co-occurs with which diagnostic category?
A) Mental disorder
B) Conduct disorder
C) Status offenses
D) Psychopathy
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) Lead exposure and maternal malnutrition are examples of environmental hazards.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Two strong indicators of temperament are
A) language and eating patterns.
B) eye contact and intelligence.
C) extraversion and introversion.
D) emotionality and activity.
Answer: D
Q3) All of the following statements are true of the amygdala except A) it is small and almond shaped.
B) it is located in the limbic system.
C) it is especially hardy and unaffected by developmental experiences.
D) it is associated with impulsive aggression.
Answer: C
Q4) The consensus among experts is that ________ responsiveness,nurturance,and warmth have emerged as critical core determinants of the early parent-child relationship.
Answer: parental
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and Situational
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Q1) Which behavioral scientist maintains that human behavior,including criminal behavior,is acquired primarily through observational learning or modeling?
A) Julian Rotter
B) Albert Bandura
C) Ronald Akers
D) John Watson
Q2) Early learning theorists worked in the laboratory,using ________ as their primary subjects.
Q3) Which of the following is a basic assumption of classical conditioning?
A) Humans are automatons.
B) Humans are active learners.
C) Humans are good.
D) Humans are evil.
Q4) The common human tendency to discount the influence of a situation and explain behavior by referring to the personality of an actor is called
A) type II error.
B) type I error.
C) ecological error.
D) fundamental attribution error.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) An approach in psychology that views human cognition and behavior in a broadly Darwinian context of adaptation to evolving physical and social environments is called
A) Darwinian psychology.
B) adaptation psychology.
C) positive psychology.
D) evolutionary psychology.
Q2) If you were a TV producer and wanted an argument to support your position of the value of violence on television,you would probably rely on which of the following theoretical positions?
A) Psychoanalytic
B) Social learning
C) Frustration-aggression
D) Behaviorism
Q3) How does I3 Theory differ from GAM theory?
A) It incorporates social and cognitive processes.
B) It disregards risk factors.
C) It incorporates recent research on self-regulation.
D) It disregards social learning theory.
Q4) The revised frustration-aggression hypothesis was proposed by ________.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquincy
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Q1) Waaktaar et al.(2004)conducted a study to explore how resilience or protective factors could be used to help at risk youths.The researchers targeted four resilience factors for therapeutic intervention.What were these four factors?
A) Positive family relations, self-esteem, creativity, and interpersonal skills
B) Positive peer relations, self-efficacy, creativity, and coherence
C) Positive family relations, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and coherence
D) Positive peer relations, creativity, self-esteem, and academic skills
Q2) Steinberg's dual systems model of risk-taking is based on evidence from the field of A) forensic science.
B) entomology.
C) sociology.
D) neuroscience.
Q3) There is good evidence that most serious,persistent delinquency and crime patterns usually begin early and worsen with age.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Prevention and treatment programs have shifted from focusing on reducing risk factors to emphasizing ________ factors.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) Robert Hare's research studies have found that criminal psychopaths appear to be deficient in
A) linguistic processing.
B) common sense.
C) intelligence.
D) logic.
Q2) According to Robert Hare,antisocial individuals who display aggressive behavior learned from their subculture are ________ psychopaths.
A) secondary
B) neurotic
C) symptomatic
D) dissocial
Q3) Criminal psychopaths make up about what percent of the male inmate population in a maximum security prison?
A) 5-8%
B) 10-25%
C) 20-38%
D) 45-55%
Q4) Briefly describe the core characteristics of the criminal psychopath.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) Describe guilty but mentally ill statutes.Why do many legal scholars oppose them?
Q2) Compare and contrast actuarial measures and clinical measures of risk assessment.
Q3) All of the following standards or rules to determine insanity are or have been represented in various state or federal legal systems except the A) Dayton Rule.
B) M'Naghten Rule.
C) Brawner Rule.
D) Product Test.
Q4) Most contemporary research indicates that the percentage of mentally disordered inmates in the nation's jails and prisons is ________.
Q5) The use of amnesia as a defense has been largely unsuccessful in the United States. A)True
B)False
Q6) Schizophrenia typically begins ________ in life.
Q7) Identify and include symptoms of the four diagnostic categories most relevant to criminal behavior.
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) There is strong research evidence that women who kill their children are emotionally detached from their offspring.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When considering police data on homicide,it's important to consider that arrests do not necessarily result in ________.
Q3) Explain what research tells about the perpetrators and victims of elder abuse.
Q4) Males are more likely than female to perpetrate which act of family violence?
A) Munchausen Syndrome by proxy
B) Neonaticide
C) Elderly abuse
D) Abusive head trauma
Q5) Abusive head trauma is synonymous with
A) Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
B) stereotypical abduction.
C) post-traumatic stress disorder.
D) shaken baby syndrome.
Q6) List and describe the four categories of homicide generated by Roberts,Zgoba,and Shahidullah (2007).
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) The majority of mass murderers plan to die at the crime scene.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An organized crime scene indicates that the offender maintained ________ of him/herself and the victim.
Q3) Columbine's death toll was surpassed by the shootings at ________ in 2007.
Q4) Explain the concern with the term profiling.Include two flaws in modern profiling that were discussed in the text.
Q5) Serial murder is usually reserved for incidents in which an individual (or individuals)kills ________ or more victims in separate events.
Q6) Psychological profiling has its roots in A) behaviorism.
B) psychometrics .
C) psychoanalysis.
D) politics.
E) behaviorism .
Q7) The actuarial approach concentrates on the description,understanding,and identification of a(n)________ offender.
Q8) Classic murders also may be called ________ mass murders. Page 12
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) The FBI classifies terrorists according to A) country.
B) motives.
C) religious beliefs.
D) political leanings.
Q2) The tendency of a group to develop beliefs and make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members is called
A) risky shift.
B) group persuasion.
C) extreme terrorism.
D) group think.
Q3) People who have a ________ bias perceive a connection between what people do,are,or believe in,and what happens to them.
Q4) Which factor has contributed to the increase in lone wolf terrorist activities in the United States?
A) Unemployment
B) Social media
C) Poverty
D) Racial profiling
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Differentiate between acquaintance and date rape.Summarize the research on the prevalence of acquaintance and date rape.
Q2) The rapist motivated by anger-retaliation in the MTC:R3 is similar to the ________ type described in the original MTC.
A) compensatory
B) impulsive
C) sexually-aggressive
D) displaced-aggression
Q3) According to the revised definition of rape,________ is presumed,even if the individual does not resist.
Q4) Research on rape reveals that,in general,men who rape
A) are addicted to sex.
B) have uncontrollable or irresistible impulses to rape.
C) are suffering from various forms of mental illness.
D) subscribe to attitudes that support rape.
Q5) Rape is widely believed to be the most underreported crime.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe three of the rape myths discussed in the chapter.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth
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Q1) Describe the psychological effects of child sexual victimization.
Q2) All of the following have been found to predict recidivism for child sex offenders except
A) anger.
B) paraphilias.
C) social isolation.
D) sexual fixation.
Q3) Which key psychological factors are most important to reducing sex offending?
A) Motivational factors
B) Static risk factors
C) Historical factors
D) Dynamic risk factors
Q4) Sexual ________ appears to be a strong predictor for child molesters who are most prone to be repeat offenders.
Q5) Current research suggests that symptoms most commonly reported among adolescents and adults who were molested are
A) depression and PTSD.
B) schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations.
C) fear and sleep problems.
D) phobias and psychosomatic complaints.
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Chapter 14: Burglary, Home Invasions, Thefts, and White
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Q1) How does larceny-theft differ from burglary?
A) It doesn't involve unlawful entry.
B) It doesn't involve violent crime.
C) It is committed by professionals.
D) It is almost always carefully planned.
Q2) Which technique do most identity thieves use to explain their crimes?
A) Victim blaming
B) Duplication
C) Neutralization
D) Emotionality
Q3) Carjacking often involves ________ planning and decision making.
Q4) Data on shoplifting is difficult to obtain because store personnel have wide discretion in whether or not to report the incidents.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identity theft is known to victimize the deceased and ________.
Q6) Official burglary rates have ________ in recent years.
Q7) Green's categories of white-collar crime are mutually exclusive.
A)True
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime, Cybercrime, and
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Q1) In hostage-taking situations,those hostages who,after release,have considerable difficulty dealing with the after-effects of the incident are called A) survivors.
B) pseudo-victims.
C) masked depressed survivors.
D) succumbers.
Q2) Explain the motivations and situational dynamics behind street robbery.
Q3) At which age range is fascination with fire typical?
A) Between ages 1 and 3
B) Between ages 5 and 7
C) Between ages 10 and 12
D) Between ages 13 and 15
Q4) A major difference between robbery and other property crime is that A) robbery involves direct contact with a victim.
B) robbers are less likely to be apprehended.
C) robbers are more likely to rationalize their behavior.
D) on average, robbery brings in more money for the offender.
Q5) Both criminal and prisoner hostage-taking situations are instrumental in nature. A)True B)False
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) Which statement most accurately reflects the relationship between crack and violent behavior?
A) Crack, by itself does not seem to cause violent behavior in nonviolent people.
B) The production, distribution and selling of crack is not associated with violence.
C) The use of even small doses of crack promotes violent behavior.
D) Long-term use of crack promotes violent behavior, especially in regularly nonviolent individuals.
Q2) Methylphenidate is also known as
A) Ritalin.
B) ephedrine.
C) cocaine.
D) Ativan.
Q3) Which of the following effects is produced by narcotics?
A) Hyperactivity
B) Sleepiness
C) Restlessness
D) Elation
Q4) Persistent crack users are often ________ users.
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