Criminological and Forensic Psychology
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Chapter 4: Who Commits Crime? The Criminal Mind
1. Psychopathy is a mental illness
- True
- False
Answer: B
2. Psychopathy is
- Inherently linked to criminal behaviour
- A risk factor for criminal behaviour
- Indicates the willingness to commit crime
- All of the above
Answer: B
3. Which of these statements is true?
- Women are less likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, but are also more likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
- Women are more likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, and are also more likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
- Women are more likely to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder than men, but are also less likely to exhibit comorbidity of disorders
- 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
- First order and second order
- Primary and secondary
- Factor 1 & factor 2
- Major and minor
Answer: B
5. Psychopathy is an historically enduring set of personality characteristics, suggesting that
- Social predation is genetically transmitted
- Social predation provides an evolutionary advantage
- Social predation is socially acceptable
- 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
- weaker frontal cortex activation when defecting
- weaker frontal cortex activation when defecting
- stronger frontal cortex activation when cooperating
- Weaker frontal cortex activation when cooperating
Answer: C
7. PCL-R items can be
- Reduced to 4 stable factors
- Used to diagnose psychopathy
- Used outside clinical settings
- None of the above
Answer: D
8. Psychopathy can be associated with flat affect
- True
- False
Answer: A
9. Psychopathic characteristics may be associated with dysfunction in which system?
- Paralimbic
- Paranoid
- Paralympic
- Paramedic
Answer: A
10. “Unsuccessful” psychopaths exhibit lower
- XXY
- XYY
- IQ
- QI
Answer: C
11. Psychopaths may experience reduce ______ in comparison to most of the population
- Happiness
- Fear
- Sexual arousal
- All of the above.
Answer: B
12. Psychopathy and Anti-Social Personality Disorder are synonymous
- True
- False *
Answer: B
13. Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Dissocial Personality disorder are synonymous
- True
- False
Answer: A
14. Cleckley’s profile of psychopathic personality characteristics led to the development of which instrument?
- MMPI
- PCL
- PPI
- MFI
Answer: B
15. Non-offending psychopaths make up 10% of the population
- True
- False
Answer: B