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Forensic Psychology
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Forensic Psychology explores the intersection between psychology and the legal system, examining how psychological principles apply to criminal investigation, legal processes, and the treatment of offenders. This course covers topics such as criminal profiling, assessment of competency, eyewitness testimony, psychological evaluation of defendants, and the role of mental health in criminal behavior. Students will gain an understanding of how psychologists contribute to law enforcement, court proceedings, corrections, and the rehabilitation of offenders, while analyzing ethical issues and the impact of psychological expertise on justice processes.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 10th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) Which one of the following would psychological criminology be most concerned with?
A) Demographic features of offenders who participate in burglary.
B) How violent individuals learn their aggressive behavior.
C) The gender of murder victims.
D) The time of day when burglary most often occurs.
E) The unequal power distribution between various members of society.
Answer: B
Q2) Criminology is the psychological study of crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When one person is arrested for a crime, charged with the offense and remanded to the court for prosecution, the offense is considered to be:
A) stipulated as detected.
B) cleared by arrest.
C) adjudicated.
D) mandated in hierarchy.
E) remanded by exceptional means.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Those influences in a person's life that are believed to increase the probability that an individual will engage in criminal behavior are called:
A) self-regulatory factors.
B) criminogenic needs.
C) criminogenic determinants.
D) impulsive drives.
E) risk factors.
Answer: E
Q2) It is rare for an individual to possess both affective and cognitive empathy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Hodgins, Cree and Mark (2008) found that conduct disorder present prior to age 15 is:
A) effectively treated with medication.
B) strongly associated with violent behavior into middle age.
C) strongly associated with crime in females.
D) effectively treated with psychotherapy.
E) related to quality of the marital relationship in the home.
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) As a group, biopsychologists believe that genetics are the sole cause of criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which personality feature, commonly associated with antisocial behavior, shows high hereditability and little environmental influence?
A) Optimism
B) Empathy
C) Schizophrenic detachment
D) Temperament
E) Callous-unemotional traits
Answer: E
Q4) Compare and contrast behavior and molecular genetics.
Answer: NOT ANSWERED
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and Situational
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Q1) Akers' differential association reinforcement theory is based largely on the criminological theory of:
A) Edwin Sutherland.
B) Albert Bandura.
C) Albert Cohen.
D) Walter Miller.
E) B.F. Skinner.
Q2) Explain the concept of deindividuation and illustrate by describing any one experiment in social psychology.
Q3) Studies conducted by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo both found that one's situation strongly influences behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Milgram's famous studies on obedience to authority indicate that:
A) people pay little attention to authority figures once they become adults.
B) in general, Americans are not obedient or conforming.
C) most people are obedient to authority even if it causes pain to others.
D) children are less obedient to authority than adults.
E) adults are more obedient to authority than children.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) The research community is sharply divided on the long-term effects of violent media on aggressive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman are two high-profile victims of hostile aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The psychodynamic approach to the treatment of aggressive behavior would most likely emphasize:
A) appropriate modeling.
B) reinforcement.
C) reduction of aggressive energy through supervised aggressive behavior.
D) avoidance of aggressive-provoking stimuli.
E) none of the above.
Q4) Research studies have found that domestic violence is a common precipitating factor in road rage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between road rage and aggressive driving.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquency
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Q1) Describe the characteristics of Multisystemic therapy. Summarize the research findings about the program's success.
Q2) Psychological definitions of delinquency usually include:
A) conduct disorder and antisocial behavior.
B) habitual behavior and violent behavior.
C) cruelty to animals and fire setting.
D) status offenses and antisocial behavior.
E)antisocial personality disorder and habitual misbehavior.
Q3) All of the following are characteristic of juveniles with the callous-unemotional trait cluster except:
A) targeted prevention.
B) universal treatment.
C) tertiary prevention.
D) selective prevention.
E) restrictive treatment.
Q4) Discuss what we know about the differences (if any) between girls delinquency and boys delinquency. What does research show about the gender difference in status offenses.
Q5) Briefly describe the three categories of prevention and give an example of each.
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Q6) Summarize the five characteristics of successful treatment programs.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) Hemisphere asymmetry refers to the observation that most psychopaths have superior language ability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The childhood of the psychopath is often characterized by:
A) hyperactivity.
B) cruelty to animals.
C) enuresis.
D) fire setting.
E) poor school performance.
Q3) The core behavioral dimension that reflects the interpersonal and emotional components, such as callousness and manipulation of others, is referred to as psychopathic factor I.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some research suggests that psychopathy and bipolar disorder are on the same spectrum of disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What behavioral differences have been found between male and female psychopaths?
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) Adjudicative competence is now the standard term for not guilty by reason of insanity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Statistics show that more than half of all prison and jail inmates might benefit from mental health treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The use of amnesia as a defense has been largely unsuccessful in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A developmental status attributable to a cognitive impairment is called:
A) developmental readiness.
B) developmental amblyopia.
C) developmental dysfunction.
D) developmental disability.
E) cognitive dysphasia.
Q5) Discuss the role of law enforcement and mental health courts in deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill.
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) Explain what research tells about the perpetrators and victims of elder abuse.
Q2) There is strong research evidence that women who kill their children are emotionally detached from their offspring.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As a clinical diagnosis, Battered Woman Syndrome is thought to be a form of:
A) clinical depression.
B) paranoid disorder, undifferentiated type.
C) post-traumatic stress disorder.
D) bipolar disorder.
E) personality disorder.
Q4) A youth who has been thrown away from the home by a parent or caretaker is called a thrownaway.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Studies of homicide have shown that murderers rarely know their victims.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List some of the factors that make the family so difficult to study.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) Bullied students often become antisocial adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Investigative psychology is to _____ as profiling is to _______.
A) the crime scene; the offender.
B) criminal analysis; criminal tendencies.
C) forensics; anthropology
D) anthropology; forensics
E) the offender; the victim
Q3) Criminal profiling is most often used to determine an offender's specific identity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research has found that the two consistent characteristics of school shooters are:
A) cruelty to animals and easy access to weapons.
B) desire for revenge and history of drug use.
C) interest in unusual hobbies and history of drug use.
D) peer rejection and social rejection.
E) current depression diagnosis and history of violent behavior.
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) Lone wolf terrorists are more likely to be mentally disturbed than other terrorists.
A)True
B)False
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.
E) group hyperbole.
Q3) What is cognitive restructuring and how does it relate to both perpetrators and victims of terrorism?
Q4) Al-Qaeda would be considered a cohesive group with loyal members.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List and describe briefly the characteristics of lone wolf-terrorists. Provide an example.
Q6) Describe the reasons why a terrorist might volunteer for a suicide mission.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Martin, Taft, and Resick (2007) estimate that 10-14% of _____ have experienced rape.
A) males under age 17
B) married women
C) female college students
D) females under age 17
E) male high school students
Q2) Which statement reflects the just world hypothesis?
A) Rapists should be executed.
B) Rapists deserve to be chemically castrated.
C) Rapists should never receive parole from prison.
D) Women who are raped deserve it.
E) Rapists are sick.
Q3) According to Groth, the smallest percentage of rapists (about 5%) fall under what category?
A) Control rape
B) Power rape
C) Anger rape
D) Sadistic rape
E) Impulsive rape
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth and Other
Sexual Offenses
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Q1) Most individuals diagnosed with pedophilia commit myriad crimes against children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Clinical studies have found that _____ may have been an integral part in the development of both normal and deviant sexual behavior.
A) an embarrassing early sexual experience
B) masturbatory conditioning
C) adequate communication skills with members of the opposite sex
D) poor relationship with parent of the opposite sex
E) sexual fantasy
Q3) Compare and contrast effective treatment for juvenile sex offenders and adult sex offenders.
Q4) Identify some of characteristics of female juvenile sex offenders and their victims.
Q5) Alcohol abuse is common in pedophelia.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Outline the demographic and psychological characteristics of child molesters.
Q7) Briefly describe the Groth classification model of child molesters.
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Chapter 14: Property and Public Order Crime
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Q1) List some of the reasons researchers are able to access such detailed information about burglary, compared to other offenses.
Q2) In addition to the other negative effects of victimization, victims of fraud and identity theft are most likely to experience:
A) post-traumatic stress.
B) feelings of self-blame.
C) uncontrollable anger.
D) clinical depression.
E) homicidal thoughts.
Q3) Which one of the following offenses would not be considered larceny?
A) Shoplifting
B) Home invasion
C) Pickpocketing
D) Purse snatching
E) Bicycle theft
Q4) Carjacking most commonly occurs in rural, isolated areas.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the conceptual difficulty in defining white collar crime.
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime and Crimes of Initimidation
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Q1) The fastest growing computer crime is:
A) child pornography.
B) hacking.
C) fraud.
D) cyberbullying.
E) theft.
Q2) Who was George Metesky? What was he responsible for? What does he have in common with Theodore Kaczynski?
Q3) Research suggests hostage-taking incidents are rarely perpetrated by mentally disordered individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Choose any three crimes covered in this Chapter and discuss what research tells us about the offenders.
Q5) _____ stalkers do not seek a personal relationship with their targets.
A) Love obsession
B) Possessive
C) Vengeance
D) Erotomania
E) Simple obsession
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) Which is not one of the four categories of drugs reported to the Department of Justice?
A) Opium
B) Synthetic narcotics
C) Dangerous nonnarcotics
D) Marijuana
E) Alcohol
Q2) When an individual exhibits a progressively decreased responsiveness to a drug, this phenomenon is called:
A) dependence.
B) psychosocial adaptation.
C) abuse.
D) drug immunity syndrome.
E) tolerance.
Q3) Define and explain drug tolerance and dependence.
Q4) Most research on drug and alcohol abuse has focused on males.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly list the common psychological effects of any three of the following: cocaine, MDMA, heroin, alcohol, metamphetamine.
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