Chapter 4: Who Commits Crime? The Criminal Mind

1. Psychopathy is a mental illness

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B

2. Psychopathy is

  1. Inherently linked to criminal behaviour
  2. A risk factor for criminal behaviour
  3. Indicates the willingness to commit crime
  4. All of the above

Answer: B

3. Which of these statements is true?

  1. Women are less likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, but are also more likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
  2. Women are more likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, and are also more likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
  3. Women are more likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, but are also less likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
  4. Women are less likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, and are also less likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders

Answer: A

4. Cleckley’s distinction within psychopaths was in terms of

  1. First order and second order
  2. Primary and secondary
  3. Factor 1 & factor 2
  4. Major and minor

Answer: B

5. Psychopathy is an historically enduring set of personality characteristics, suggesting that

  1. Social predation is genetically transmitted
  2. Social predation provides an evolutionary advantage
  3. Social predation is socially acceptable
  4. None of the above

Answer: B

6. In the prisoner’s dilemma study, those scoring high on psychopathy measures were more likely to betray their partner and had

  1. weaker frontal cortex activation when defecting
  2. weaker frontal cortex activation when defecting
  3. stronger frontal cortex activation when cooperating
  4. Weaker frontal cortex activation when cooperating

Answer: C

7. PCL-R items can be

  1. Reduced to 4 stable factors
  2. Used to diagnose psychopathy
  3. Used outside clinical settings
  4. None of the above

Answer: D

8. Psychopathy can be associated with flat affect

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

9. Psychopathic characteristics may be associated with dysfunction in which system?

  1. Paralimbic
  2. Paranoid
  3. Paralympic
  4. Paramedic

Answer: A

10. “Unsuccessful” psychopaths exhibit lower

  1. XXY
  2. XYY
  3. IQ
  4. QI

Answer: C

11. Psychopaths may experience reduce ______ in comparison to most of the population

  1. Happiness
  2. Fear
  3. Sexual arousal
  4. All of the above.

Answer: B

12. Psychopathy and Anti-Social Personality Disorder are synonymous

  1. True
  2. False *

Answer: B

13. Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Dissocial Personality disorder are synonymous

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

14. Cleckley’s profile of psychopathic personality characteristics led to the development of which instrument?

  1. MMPI
  2. PCL 
  3. PPI
  4. MFI

Answer: B

15. Non-offending psychopaths make up 10% of the population

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B