Chapter 6: The Psychology of Homicide

1. Which of the following would be classed as murder?

  1. Suicide
  2. Silicide
  3. Genocide
  4. Herbicide

Answer: C

2. The killing of several people in one location at the same time is called spree killing

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B

3. Which of the following childhood issues is associated with serial killers’ development?

  1. Stuttering
  2. Hyperactivity
  3. insomnia
  4. Enuresis

Answer: D

4. Female serial killers are predominantly found in health care professions

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

5. Serial killers found in health care professions are often referred to in lay terms as

  1. Angels of Mercy
  2. Angels of Death
  3. Angels of Apocalypse
  4. Angels of Euthanasia

Answer: B

6. Sexual homicide is also referred to as hybristophilia

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B

7. Lust murder is often accompanied by

  1. Cannibalism
  2. Erotomania
  3. Satanic rituals
  4. Hybristophilia

Answer: A

8. Medical models of murder suggest that killers are most likely to be mentally disordered

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

9. The frustration-aggression hypothesis means people will kill due to frustrated ambition

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B

10. A  pseudocommando a mass murderer who is prepared to die

  1. True
  2. False  

Answer: A

11. Killing is only murder if there is also intent

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

12. An addiction model of serial killing suggests that people will kill to fund drug addictions.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: 

13. An addiction model of serial murder suggests that people will continue to kill as there is a “high” associated with killing

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

14. According to Mehta and Beer (2010) women showed increased aggression  and reduced activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex when exposed to excess TV violence

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: B

15. Women kill because the experience hormonal disturbances accompanied by a rise in androgens

  1. True
  2. False *

Answer: B