Essential Psychology
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Multiple Choice Questions
1. Criteria-based content analysis (CBCA) attempts to assess truthfulness in which of the following ways?
- searching for specific words in a statement
- looking at the microexpressions of a person giving a statement
- examining the quality and content of a statement by a standardized procedure
- 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?
- fewer body movements, taking longer to respond, averting eye contact
- increased body movements, more pauses, averting eye contact
- eye contact, decreased pitch, more pauses
- decreased pitch, fewer body movements, eye contact
Answer: A
3. The polygraph
- detects lies or deception
- has been for around 25 years now
- measures and records physiological responses
- is admissible in court
Answer: C
4. Who suggests three distinct types of false confession?
- Rothwell et al. (2006)
- Kassin and Wrightsman (1985)
- Wells and Olson (2003)
- 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?
- drug misuse
- a guilty conscience
- hyperactivity or attention disorders
- negative or traumatic life events
Answer: B
6. Knight and Prentky (1990) characterize rapists into four main types according to their motivation. These are
- opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual, vindictive
- opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual, fixated
- regressed, vindictive, opportunistic, pervasively angry
- 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.
- offending is attributed to external factors / negative views of women are dangerous and facilitate harm towards them
- men’s needs are met on demand / negative views of women are dangerous and facilitate harm towards them
- men’s needs are met on demand / women are perceived as rejecting, by which the offender can retaliate and assert his dominance
- 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)?
- adults who have sexual desire for prepubescent children
- recurrent intense sexual arousal from watching an unsuspecting person who is naked, while engaging in sexual activity
- urges have to be present for a period of 12 months
- 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
- random malice by unstable individuals
- revenge for a woman rejecting the romantic advances of a male
- gang-related violence and territory wars
- revenge for a man being unfaithful to a woman
Answer: B
10. ‘Dynamic risk factors’ are defined as
- factors that predict a person's risk of reoffending based on their history of past offending
- factors that increase a person's risk of reoffending and cannot be modified
- factors that increase a person's risk of a reoffending but can be changed through treatment
- factors that change so quickly that they cannot be used to give a meaningful assessment of risk
Answer: C