Chapter 6: The Psychology of Homicide
1. Which of the following would be classed as murder?
- Suicide
- Silicide
- Genocide
- Herbicide
2. The killing of several people in one location at the same time is called spree killing
- True
- False
3. Which of the following childhood issues is associated with serial killers’ development?
- Stuttering
- Hyperactivity
- insomnia
- Enuresis
4. Female serial killers are predominantly found in health care professions
- True
- False
5. Serial killers found in health care professions are often referred to in lay terms as
- Angels of Mercy
- Angels of Death
- Angels of Apocalypse
- Angels of Euthanasia
6. Sexual homicide is also referred to as hybristophilia
- True
- False
7. Lust murder is often accompanied by
- Cannibalism
- Erotomania
- Satanic rituals
- Hybristophilia
8. Medical models of murder suggest that killers are most likely to be mentally disordered
- True
- False
9. The frustration-aggression hypothesis means people will kill due to frustrated ambition
- True
- False
10. A pseudocommando a mass murderer who is prepared to die
- True
- False
11. Killing is only murder if there is also intent
- True
- False
12. An addiction model of serial killing suggests that people will kill to fund drug addictions.
- True
- False
13. An addiction model of serial murder suggests that people will continue to kill as there is a “high” associated with killing
- True
- False
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
- True
- False
15. Women kill because the experience hormonal disturbances accompanied by a rise in androgens
- True
- False *