Multiple Choice Questions

1. Criteria-based content analysis (CBCA) attempts to assess truthfulness in which of the following ways?

  1. searching for specific words in a statement
  2. looking at the microexpressions of a person giving a statement
  3. examining the quality and content of a statement by a standardized procedure
  4. considering the background and education of the person who made the statement

Answer: C

2. What common features tend to identify when someone is being deceitful?

  1. fewer body movements, taking longer to respond, averting eye contact
  2. increased body movements, more pauses, averting eye contact
  3. eye contact, decreased pitch, more pauses
  4. decreased pitch, fewer body movements, eye contact

Answer: A

3. The polygraph

  1. detects lies or deception
  2. has been for around 25 years now
  3. measures and records physiological responses
  4. is admissible in court

Answer: C

4. Who suggests three distinct types of false confession?

  1. Rothwell et al. (2006)
  2. Kassin and Wrightsman (1985)
  3. Wells and Olson (2003)
  4. Knight and Prentky (1990)

Answer: B

5. Which of the following is NOT suggested as a factor that could increase the likelihood of someone providing a false confession?

  1. drug misuse
  2. a guilty conscience
  3. hyperactivity or attention disorders
  4. negative or traumatic life events

Answer: B

6. Knight and Prentky (1990) characterize rapists into four main types according to their motivation. These are

  1. opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual, vindictive
  2. opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual, fixated
  3. regressed, vindictive, opportunistic, pervasively angry
  4. none of these

Answer: A

7. Ward and Keenan (1999) put forward five implicit theories as being prominent in adult rapists. Define entitlement and dangerous world.

  1. offending is attributed to external factors / negative views of women are dangerous and facilitate harm towards them
  2. men’s needs are met on demand / negative views of women are dangerous and facilitate harm towards them
  3. men’s needs are met on demand / women are perceived as rejecting, by which the offender can retaliate and assert his dominance
  4. offending is attributed to external factors / women are perceived as rejecting, by which the offender can retaliate and assert his dominance

Answer: C

8. Which one of these statements defines voyeurism in the DSM-5: American Psychiatric Association (2013)?

  1. adults who have sexual desire for prepubescent children
  2. recurrent intense sexual arousal from watching an unsuspecting person who is naked, while engaging in sexual activity
  3. urges have to be present for a period of 12 months
  4. recurrent intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviours involving exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person

Answer: B

9. Mannan et al. (2007) found that 43% of reported cases of acid attacks in Bangladesh were motivated by

  1. random malice by unstable individuals
  2. revenge for a woman rejecting the romantic advances of a male
  3. gang-related violence and territory wars
  4. revenge for a man being unfaithful to a woman

Answer: B

10. ‘Dynamic risk factors’ are defined as

  1. factors that predict a person's risk of reoffending based on their history of past offending
  2. factors that increase a person's risk of reoffending and cannot be modified
  3. factors that increase a person's risk of a reoffending but can be changed through treatment
  4. factors that change so quickly that they cannot be used to give a meaningful assessment of risk

Answer: C