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Pregunta 1 de 132

1

According to research findings, the most probable explanation of malingering is captured by:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a pathogenic model

  • a criminological model

  • an adaptational model

  • an antisocial model

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 132

1

In general, how accurate do people tend to be when using verbal and non-verbal behaviour to detect deception (where a value of 100% indicates that they can accurately discriminate between truthful people and deceptive people all of the time)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • under 10%

  • between 25% and 35%

  • between 45% and 65%

  • around 25%

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 132

1

Which nonverbal cue has consistently been found to indicate deception?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • smiling

  • gaze aversion

  • self-manipulations (e.g., fidgeting)

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 132

1

Which of the following techniques has not been proposed as a method of detecting deception?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ERPs

  • fMRI

  • polygraph

  • TAT

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 132

1

A patient who actually has schizophrenia denies his auditory hallucinations when questioned by doctors. This patient is likely exhibiting:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • defensiveness

  • Munchausen syndrome by proxy

  • factitious disorder

  • somatoform disorder

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 132

1

Which verbal indicator has been most strongly associated with deception?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • speech fillers

  • voice pitch

  • speech pauses

  • speech errors (e.g., slips of the tongue)

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 132

1

A Polygraph test may be used to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Verify a crime has occurred (victim is asked to take a polygraph test, which is rarely done)

  • Screen pre-employment candidates for security agencies and police

  • Verify insurance claims

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 132

1

"During the first 20 years of your life, did you ever think of seriously hurting someone?" This is an example of what type of polygraph question?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a relevant question

  • an irrelevant question

  • a concealed information question

  • a comparison question

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 132

1

Which of the following is true of the polygraph?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Polygraph results are regularly admitted as evidence in Canadian courts.

  • The most common polygraph method used currently is the Comparison Question Test (CQT).

  • The polygraph directly measures whether a person is lying.

  • Research indicates that physical countermeasures are largely ineffective in "beating" the polygraph.

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 132

1

Most polygraph examiners using the Comparison Question Test (CQT) score according to the:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • suspect's demeanour during the test

  • information from the case file

  • physiological responses

  • suspect's past criminal record

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 132

1

When using brain-based polygraph techniques, what does ERP stand for?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • emotional response pattern

  • event response pattern

  • event-related brain potential

  • emotional-related brain potential

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 132

1

You have been falsely accused of stealing a laptop computer from a professor's office. The police have requested that you take a polygraph test to prove your innocence. In light of your knowledge of the types of errors most likely to be made by different types of polygraph exams, you agree to do so only if the examiner uses the:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • comparison question test

  • relevant/irrelevant test

  • zone of comparison format of scoring

  • concealed information test

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 132

1

Several types of studies may be used to validate polygraph techniques. Which type of study would likely involve a comparison of the accuracy between original examiners and blind evaluators, using actual criminal suspects?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • field analogue study

  • laboratory study

  • ground truth study

  • field study

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 132

1

Which of the following statements is true regarding the detection of deception?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • People are generally better at detecting truth than detecting lies.

  • High-stake lies are easier to detect than low-stake lies.

  • Many professionals (e.g., police officers) are no better than detecting deception than the general population.

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 132

1

What has been identified as a major problem particular to the Comparison Question Test (CQT)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • high false-negative rate

  • high false-positive rate

  • the use of extra-polygraph cues by the examiner

  • falsely classifying guilty suspects as innocent

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 132

1

The first polygraph test was developed by:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Stephen Porter

  • William Marston

  • James Frye

  • Hugo Munsterberg

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 132

1

Susan gives her infant son various medications to make him appear like he is suffering from an unknown illness, and takes him regularly to doctors and the emergency room to assess these fake symptoms. This is an example of what disorder of deception?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Munchausen syndrome by proxy

  • Malingering disorder

  • Somatoform disorder

  • Non-deceptive disorder

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 132

1

Which of the following is not measured by the polygraph test?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • heart rate

  • galvanic skin response

  • micro facial expressions

  • breathing

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 132

1

Laboratory studies of polygraph techniques have limited application to real-life situations because:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Study participants have no real incentive to beat the polygraph

  • Study participants have no real fear if they fail a polygraph.

  • Study participants have no real-life stress to measure.

  • All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 132

1

Which of the following is not a cue to malingered psychosis in criminal defendants?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • hallucinations with delusions

  • understandable motive for committing crime

  • presence of a partner in the crime

  • visual hallucinations in black and white

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 132

1

According to your textbook, what is the most common physiological response measured when administering the Concealed Information Test (CIT)?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • palmar sweating

  • heart rate

  • blood pressure

  • eye blinks

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 132

1

What disorder consists of symptoms that are not intentionally produced but cannot be explained by an underlying biological impairment?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Munchausen syndrome

  • malingering disorder

  • factitious disorder

  • somatoform disorder

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 132

1

What is one of the key components to malingering?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Symptoms are not intentionality produced.

  • There are only internal motivations for the production of symptoms.

  • There are external motivations for the production of symptoms.

  • Symptoms are produced in order to assume the sick role.

  • There is an absence of external incentives.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 132

1

Which of the following has not been found effective as a countermeasure to "beat" the polygraph test?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tongue-biting

  • pressing toes on the floor

  • counting backwards

  • anti-anxiety drugs

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 132

1

Which of the following are potential applications of the polygraph in Canada?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Polygraph testing is used to screen prospective employees in certain agencies.

  • Polygraph results are used to pressure individuals to confess to a crime.

  • A polygraph test may be administered to verify insurance claims.

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 132

1

The Comparison Question Test has been criticized for:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • being susceptible to countermeasures

  • having a high false–positive rate

  • assuming that innocent suspects will show larger responses to the comparison questions as compared to the relevant

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 132

1

According to the textbook, what is the primary issue surrounding the Neil v. Biggers (1972) case in relation to eyewitness accuracy?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the fact that the court stated that confidence of the witness should be seen as an indicator of accuracy

  • the fact that the witness was hypnotized and thus the information provided should not be admissible as accurate evidence in the trial

  • the fact that the witness was given a simultaneous rather than a sequential lineup

  • the fact that the witness was a child and thus the accuracy of her judgment was questionable

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 132

1

Which of the following statements is not correct concerning the outcome of hypnosis?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • More information is recalled.

  • Participants report relatively more accurate information and less inaccurate information.

  • Participants express a high degree of confidence in their memory reports

  • It is not possible to determine which statements are erroneous and which are correct.

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and forgetting

  • Age regression can be a technique used in hypnosis.

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 132

1

The hypothesis that explains the cross-race effect in eyewitness testimony by suggesting that the more contact you have with other races the better you will be able to identify them is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the interracial contact hypothesis

  • the cue-utilization hypothesis

  • the unusualness hypothesis

  • the prejudice hypothesis

  • the physiognomic homogeneity hypothesis

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 132

1

What is the major implication of the studies conducted on the misinformation effect in eyewitness research?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Memory is like a videotape.

  • Witnesses yield to authority

  • Memory is reconstructive.

  • Witnesses recall information accurately when under stress.

  • Memory typically gets better as witnesses get older.

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 132

1

On what four memory-retrieval techniques is the cognitive interview based?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • reinstating context, reporting everything, reversing order, and changing perspective

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and answering questions

  • encoding, short-term memory, long-term memory, and retrieving

  • encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting

  • reinstating context, recalling, recognizing, and forgetting

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 132

1

What is not an advantage of using a photo array rather than a live lineup for eyewitness identification?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Photo arrays are easier to construct than live lineups.

  • Suspect does not have the right to counsel being present with a photo array, whereas he/she does have that right with a live lineup

  • Photo arrays produce higher identification accuracy than live lineups.

  • A suspect need not be informed that he/she is being placed in a photo array, whereas with a live lineup he/she must be so informed

  • The police do not have to worry about the suspect's behaviour potentially invalidating the lineup.

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 132

1

Which Canadian case involving poor police techniques in collecting eyewitness evidence resulted in a set of recommendations for conducting lineup identifications?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Neil v. Biggers

  • R. v. Sophonow

  • R. v. Brooks

  • R. v. Reno

  • Brooks v. Biggers

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 132

1

An eyewitness is shown a picture of an individual who the police think is responsible for a recent bank robbery. No other lineup photos are shown. The eyewitness is asked to state whether the person in the photograph is the same individual seen in the bank. What sort of lineup procedure is being used here?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a showup

  • a simultaneous lineup

  • a sequential lineup

  • a walk-by

  • an elimination lineup

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 132

1

What type of decision is not possible with a target-present lineup?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • correct identification

  • foil identification

  • false rejection

  • false identification

  • All of the above are possible identification decisions with the target-present lineup.

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 132

1

Which of the following would be considered an estimator variable in eyewitness research?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • how light it was outside when the crime was witnessed

  • the room where the witness was interviewed

  • the number of police officers present during the interview

  • the time of day when the witness was interviewed

  • the type of lineup presented to the witness

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 132

1

Which of the following is true regarding age and eyewitness identification?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Older adults are just as likely as younger adults to make a false positive decision from a target-absent lineup

  • Generally, there are significant differences between younger and older adults' ability to make correct identifications.

  • Younger and older eyewitnesses do not differ in their correct identification rate or false positive rate.

  • Overall, older adult eyewitnesses have more difficulty than younger adult eyewitnesses in making correct rejection decisions.

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 132

1

Susan is being questioned by police after she witnessed a man rob a convenience store. The police are asking her questions about the culprit's appearance, and she finds that all she can remember is that the man had a gun. What is the term used to describe this recall situation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • recall obstruction hypothesis

  • retrieval impairment hypothesis

  • weapon focus

  • central superiority hypothesis

  • peripheral inferiority effect

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 132

1

Approximately what percentage of wrongful conviction cases (exonerated through DNA evidence) have been attributed to eyewitness identification?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • under 50%

  • 50-60%

  • 60-70%

  • about 75%

  • over 95%

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 132

1

Which of the following statements is true with respect to the cognitive interview and enhanced cognitive interview?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The enhanced cognitive interview incorporates all the elements of the cognitive interview.

  • Only some officers in Canada have been trained to use the cognitive interview

  • No significant differences have been found between the effectiveness of the cognitive interview and that of the enhanced cognitive interview.

  • Compared to the standard police interview, the cognitive interview and enhanced cognitive interview produce more accurate information without an increase in inaccurate information.

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 132

1

Describing the actions of a culprit during a police interview relies on ______________, while identifying the culprit's voice from a set of voices relies on __________________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • narrative memory/refreshed memory

  • recall memory/recognition memory

  • natural memory/prompted memory

  • open-ended memory/direct question memory

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 132

1

Which of the following would be considered a system variable in eyewitness research?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • whether the witness is intoxicated at the time of the offence

  • the age of the witness

  • the type of weapon used by the culprit

  • the interview procedure used by the police officer

  • the time at which the crime was committed

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 132

1

What is the difference between a suspect and a culprit?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The terms suspect and culprit can be used interchangeably; they mean the same thing.

  • suspect is innocent and a culprit is guilty.

  • A suspect is guilty and a culprit is innocent

  • A suspect can be guilty or innocent whereas a culprit is guilty.

  • A suspect is innocent and a culprit can be innocent or guilty.

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 132

1

What is the most common research method for studying eyewitness issues?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • field study

  • archival research

  • laboratory simulation study

  • recall study

  • recognition study

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 132

1

Overall, there is ______________ between the accuracy and the confidence of an eyewitness in the identification of a culprit.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a large positive correlation

  • a small positive correlation

  • no correlation

  • a small negative correlation

  • a large negative correlation

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 132

1

What typically happens when the eyewitness is told that the culprit may or may not be present in the lineup?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • False positive identifications increase.

  • False positive identifications decrease.

  • Correct identifications increase

  • Correct identifications decrease

  • These instructions have no impact on identifications.

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 132

1

Which of the following topics seems to be of the LEAST interest to social psychologists?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • discrimination

  • persuasion

  • personality

  • attraction

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 132

1

Sarah finds Charlie physically attractive. Because of _______________, she also sees him as personable and interesting.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the low-ball effect

  • a dispositional attribution

  • the halo effect

  • the matching hypothesis

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 132

1

Why is it that proximity is related to friendship formation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • We usually avoid attributing negative traits to people who are close at hand.

  • We are more likely to make contact with persons who are close at hand.

  • We are usually similar to people who are close at hand

  • We tend to perceive people who are close at hand as physically attractive.

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 132

1

With a well-informed audience, which of the following arguments is likely to be the most persuasive?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • simplistic

  • one-sided

  • peripheral

  • two-sided

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 132

1

Behaviour that is aimed at helping others and requires some self-sacrifice is termed:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • altruism.

  • non-normative helping.

  • normative helping

  • prosocial sacrifice.

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 132

1

The compliance technique in which a person who agrees to a small request is then presented with a larger request is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the foot-in-the-door technique

  • the bandwagon technique.

  • the skyrocket technique

  • the door-in-the-face technique.

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 132

1

In the classic experiment conducted by Solomon Asch, the people who provided the pressure to conform would be called the:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • experimenters.

  • naive subjects.

  • social loafers.

  • confederates.

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 132

1

In the classic experiment conducted by Solomon Asch, the people who provided the pressure to conform would be called the:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • experimenters.

  • naive subjects

  • social loafers.

  • confederates.

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 132

1

The tendency to put forth less effort when working with others on a common task than when working alone is called:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social loafing

  • group polarization.

  • social inaction

  • social facilitation.

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 132

1

The mere-exposure effect is most strongly related to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • discrimination.

  • persuasion.

  • attraction.

  • prejudice

Explicación

Pregunta 57 de 132

1

The blocking of an impulse or interference with the attainment of a goal is defined as:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • crowding.

  • antisocial behaviour.

  • frustration.

  • aggression.

Explicación

Pregunta 58 de 132

1

Which theory of prejudice is based on the idea that people tend to form in-groups and out-groups?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social cognitive theory

  • us versus them theory

  • social learning theory

  • realistic conflict theory

Explicación

Pregunta 59 de 132

1

When it comes to attraction, the concept of reciprocal liking refers to the fact that:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • people tend to be attracted to others who are at their same level of physical attractiveness.

  • people tend to like those whom they believe like them.

  • people tend to be attracted to attractive-looking people.

  • sometimes people dislike others before they start to like them.

Explicación

Pregunta 60 de 132

1

The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo demonstrated the powerful influence of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • poverty.

  • money.

  • social class.

  • social roles.

Explicación

Pregunta 61 de 132

1

Because of the bystander effect,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • people are likely to demonstrate social loafing.

  • Kitty Genovese got help when she needed it.

  • participants in Milgram’s experiment obeyed.

  • you would be better off if only one person rather than many people witnessed you in need of help.

Explicación

Pregunta 62 de 132

1

The matching hypothesis suggests

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • that opposites attract

  • a talkative person may seek a quiet mate who prefers to listen.

  • we are likely to end up with someone similar to ourselves in attractiveness and other assets

  • couples mismatched on attractiveness and other assets have relationships as long-lasting as other couples.

Explicación

Pregunta 63 de 132

1

The social learning theory of aggression emphasizes all of the following except that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • when aggressive responses are reinforced, they are more likely to continue.

  • aggressive responses are learned from the family, the subculture, and the media.

  • most aggression results from frustration.

  • aggressive responses are learned through modelling.

Explicación

Pregunta 64 de 132

1

Audience effects and co-action effects are two concepts related to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • obedience to authority.

  • social facilitation.

  • social loafing.

  • bystander apathy

Explicación

Pregunta 65 de 132

1

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the primacy effect?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the primacy effect continues to influence later impressions by becoming the framework through which other information is accepted or disregarded.

  • The primacy effect only affects initial impressions and has no bearing on later information that is gathered.

  • The primacy effect is a very small effect on impression formation

  • Once the primacy effect exists, people become most interested in information that is inconsistent with this initial impression.

Explicación

Pregunta 66 de 132

1

Social psychology is the area in psychology that focuses on

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • human growth and development through across the lifespan.

  • the influence of other people on our emotions, thoughts and behaviour.

  • inner psychological conflicts which determine our personality.

  • the study of emotion and motivation.

Explicación

Pregunta 67 de 132

1

Which of the following kinds of attributions do we tend to make more often for our own behaviour?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dispositional

  • internal

  • situational

  • unbiased

Explicación

Pregunta 68 de 132

1

Which of the following statements is true of first impressions?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They are not particularly important nor should they influence us.

  • They act as a framework to interpret later information.

  • They are usually correct and require our full awareness.

  • They cannot be changed without a new first impression.

Explicación

Pregunta 69 de 132

1

Usually people are attracted to others who are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • opposites of them.

  • either similar or opposite

  • intellectually similar but physically dissimilar.

  • similar to them.

Explicación

Pregunta 70 de 132

1

After their favourite team lost an important football game, a group of fans discussed means of retribution. Ultimately, they decided to break into and vandalize the opposing team’s locker room. They were subsequently arrested for doing so. This incident occurred because of the unfortunate effect of:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the mere-exposure effect.

  • group polarization.

  • the cohesion tendency

  • groupthink.

Explicación

Pregunta 71 de 132

1

A strategy to gain compliance by making a very attractive initial offer to get a person to agree to an action and then making the terms less favourable is the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • door-in-the-face technique.

  • obedience technique.

  • low-ball technique.

  • foot-in-the-door technique.

Explicación

Pregunta 72 de 132

1

Conformity is to norm as:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • group is to individual

  • change is to standards.

  • group is to culture.

  • standards are to change

Explicación

Pregunta 73 de 132

1

When we attribute our own or another's behaviour to some external factor rather than to an internal cause, we are making a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dispositional attribution.

  • fundamental attribution error.

  • situational attribution.

  • false attribution

Explicación

Pregunta 74 de 132

1

Students often report that when they work in a group, someone will not do their part to complete the group project. The person not doing enough to help the group is engaged in:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social loafing.

  • social facilitation.

  • group polarization

  • social inaction.

Explicación

Pregunta 75 de 132

1

The results of which study were most relevant to the contact hypothesis?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Sherif and Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment

  • Asch’s conformity experiment

  • Zimbardo’s prison study

  • Milgram’s obedience experiment

Explicación

Pregunta 76 de 132

1

The subjects in Milgram’s classic study were told that they were participating in:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a pain-perception experiment.

  • a learning experiment

  • an attribution experiment.

  • an obedience experiment

Explicación

Pregunta 77 de 132

1

Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) share many of the same features. However, APD places more emphasis on:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • antisocial behaviours

  • emotional deficits

  • gender

  • cognitive skills

Explicación

Pregunta 78 de 132

1

Robert's parents feel he exhibits reckless behaviour, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. Robert has been this way since birth, and his parents feel he has a difficult temperament. Robert might have:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychopathy

  • avoidant personality disorder

  • affective disorder

  • borderline personality disorder

  • psychosis

Explicación

Pregunta 79 de 132

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The terms "psychopathy" and "sociopathy" are:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the same

  • completely unrelated

  • always used interchangeably

  • related but distinct concepts

Explicación

Pregunta 80 de 132

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According to Hare (1993) we are more likely to _____________ than be murdered by a psychopath.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • lose our life savings to a psychopath

  • fall in love with a psychopath

  • work with a psychopath

  • be tricked by a psychopath

  • become friends with a psychopath

Explicación

Pregunta 81 de 132

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A diagnosis of psychopathy does fulfill the disease of the mind requirement but it has never fulfilled the second requirement of:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • knowing the victim

  • not appreciating the nature or quality of the act

  • previously having been committed in a psychiatric institute

  • having spent a night in a psychiatric facility

Explicación

Pregunta 82 de 132

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Psychopaths differ from other offenders in what way?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They begin their criminal careers younger.

  • They persist longer.

  • Their use of violence lacks an emotional aspect.

  • They commit a greater variety of violent offenses.

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 83 de 132

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Psychopathic rapists are more likely to be:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • emotionally driven

  • anxious

  • opportunistic and vindictive

  • disorganized

Explicación

Pregunta 84 de 132

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In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, _________ of offenders scoring10 or more on the PCL:SV had been convicted of an offense

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 5%

  • 27%

  • 57%

  • 97%

Explicación

Pregunta 85 de 132

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In a study examining treatment outcomes in youth with high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, the youth who received treatment in a correctional centre had:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • lower reoffending rates than youth treated in a treatment centre

  • lower violent reoffending rates than youth treated in a treatment centre

  • twice the reoffending rates of youth treated in a treatment centre

  • twice the violent reoffending rates of youth treated in a treatment centre

Explicación

Pregunta 86 de 132

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_____ of offenders can be classified as psychopaths

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1%–10%

  • 10%–25%

  • 30%–35%

  • 40%–50%

Explicación

Pregunta 87 de 132

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The best research design to determine the extent to which family experiences influence the development of psychopathic traits is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • prospective longitudinal studies

  • retrospective studies

  • cross-sectional studies

  • experimental

Explicación

Pregunta 88 de 132

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Hervey Cleckley's book ____________________ provided one of the most extensive clinical descriptions of psychopaths.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Psychopath

  • Evil People

  • The Mask of Sanity

  • Master Manipulator

Explicación

Pregunta 89 de 132

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Which Canadian researcher developed the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Olson

  • Cleckley

  • Patrick

  • Hare

  • Hart

Explicación

Pregunta 90 de 132

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Psychopathic traits in youth are related to __________ but not _____________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • depression and anxiety; IQ scores and education

  • IQ scores and education; depression and anxiety

  • depression and anxiety; violence and aggression

  • delinquency and aggression; depression and anxiety

Explicación

Pregunta 91 de 132

1

Factor 2 is most strongly related to reoffending, substance abuse, lack of education, and:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Emotional processing deficits

  • Predatory violence

  • Poor treatment response

  • Poor family background

Explicación

Pregunta 92 de 132

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The relatively small number of psychopaths account for:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • relatively small amount of crime

  • relatively small amount of violent crime

  • proportionate amount of crime

  • disproportionately large amount of crime

Explicación

Pregunta 93 de 132

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If an individual scored between 20 and 30 on the PCL-R, what would we classify them?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychopath

  • mixed group

  • nonpsychopath

  • average

Explicación

Pregunta 94 de 132

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Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is given when there is evidence of conduct disorder before the age of 15 and:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights of others since age 2

  • a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights of others since age 15

  • a chronic pattern of rule violation since age 2

  • a chronic pattern of rule violation since age 15

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 95 de 132

1

The two theories of psychopathy are:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Response modulation deficit; affective theory

  • Startle-blink response; affective theory

  • Response modulation deficit; startle-blink response

  • Antisocial process screening; startle-blink response

Explicación

Pregunta 96 de 132

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In an experiment measuring cheating behaviours and psychopathy, the best predictor of cheating was:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • low scores on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • low scores on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised

  • high scores on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

  • high scores on both the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

Explicación

Pregunta 97 de 132

1

In a study examining the use of instrumental motives, psychopaths engaged in instrumental murder in ______ of cases:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 93%

  • 77%

  • 50%

  • 34%

Explicación

Pregunta 98 de 132

1

Olver and Wong (2009) found that psychopathic offenders who remained in treatment were:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • more likely to violently reoffend

  • more likely to manipulate prison staff

  • less likely to violently reoffend

  • likely not to show any treatment gains

Explicación

Pregunta 99 de 132

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The most widely used self-report questionnaire to assess psychopathy are:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised

  • Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised and the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

Explicación

Pregunta 100 de 132

1

Which of the following is not a function of the amygdala?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • memory

  • decision making

  • language

  • defence reactions

Explicación

Pregunta 101 de 132

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In a study measuring psychopathy in a sample of community members ____ of these individuals scored zero on the PCL-SV.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 10%

  • 19%

  • 44%

  • 71%

Explicación

Pregunta 102 de 132

1

The "faint hope clause" allows offenders convicted of murder to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • be released from prison after serving 5 years of their sentence

  • apply for parole before their eligibility date

  • apply for appeals

  • make special dietary request in prison

Explicación

Pregunta 103 de 132

1

At least one major study has suggested that the higher rate of depression in women is largely due to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social and cultural factors

  • genetic predisposition

  • chemical imbalances.

  • men suppressing their own depression.

Explicación

Pregunta 104 de 132

1

Experts believe that most phobias are caused by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • learning or observation of others

  • generalized anxiety.

  • psychodynamic conflict.

  • conformity to social expectations

Explicación

Pregunta 105 de 132

1

____________________ disorders provide a mental escape from intolerable circumstances.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Somatoform

  • Anxiety

  • Dissociative

  • Post-traumatic stress

Explicación

Pregunta 106 de 132

1

Although the term neurosis has not been used officially since 1980, it applied to people who

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • suffered from personal discomfort and distress and some impairment in functioning

  • lost touch with reality.

  • violated important social norms.

  • were more disturbed than those suffering from a psychosis

Explicación

Pregunta 107 de 132

1

Delusions of grandeur and persecution are symptoms of:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dissociation disorder

  • anxiety disorder.

  • schizophrenic disorder.

  • panic disorder.

Explicación

Pregunta 108 de 132

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“Positive” symptoms of schizophrenia are so-called because they are:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • present.

  • easy to treat.

  • diagnostic of the disorder.

  • desirable.

Explicación

Pregunta 109 de 132

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Which of the following does not describe people with antisocial personality disorder?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They fear punishment.

  • They are irresponsible.

  • They seldom feel guilt

  • They are selfish.

Explicación

Pregunta 110 de 132

1

Connie adopts ritualistic behaviours to help reduce anxiety that occurs when unwanted thoughts intrude into her awareness. Connie is displaying symptoms of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  • dissociative disorder.

  • histrionic personality disorder.

  • conversion disorder.

Explicación

Pregunta 111 de 132

1

The two major types of mood disorders are:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • seasonal affective disorders and negative symptom disorders

  • manic disorders and depressive disorders.

  • depressive disorders and bipolar disorders.

  • major depressive disorders and secondary mood disorders.

Explicación

Pregunta 112 de 132

1

Brigit is afraid to leave her house. She rarely goes outside, even just to check her mail. Her sister needs to drive her to the local supermarket for shopping, but even with this assistance, Brigit is very uncomfortable. Given these symptoms, it appears that Brigit suffers from

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • panic attacks

  • major depression.

  • social phobia.

  • agoraphobia.

Explicación

Pregunta 113 de 132

1

Obsessions involve a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly.

  • generalized feeling of apprehension, fear, or tension that may be associated with a particular object or situation.

  • sudden loss of conscious and a failure to recall what took place during the episode.

  • persistent recurring involuntary thought, image, or impulse that invades consciousness and causes great distress.

Explicación

Pregunta 114 de 132

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Which of the following is not true of people suffering from a psychosis?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They have seriously impaired functioning in everyday life.

  • They rarely lose contact with reality.

  • They sometimes require hospitalization for their disorder.

  • They may have delusions or hallucinations

Explicación

Pregunta 115 de 132

1

Lenora tends to perceive every event as negative. If the phone rings, she thinks it’s a salesperson trying to bother her. If it doesn’t ring, she thinks no one cares about her. These negative interpretations are at the root of her depression, according to the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychodynamic perspective

  • social perspective

  • cognitive perspective

  • learning perspective.

Explicación

Pregunta 116 de 132

1

Panic disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder are types of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • somatoform disorders

  • anxiety disorders.

  • dissociative disorders.

  • mood disorders.

Explicación

Pregunta 117 de 132

1

People suffering from a(n) _________________ disorder lack normal empathic responses.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • antisocial personality

  • phobic

  • sleep

  • eating

Explicación

Pregunta 118 de 132

1

The facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures of people who suffer from schizophrenia often do not fit the situation. This is called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • negative symptoms.

  • flatness of affect.

  • inappropriate affect.

  • delusional behaviour.

Explicación

Pregunta 119 de 132

1

Pamela suffers from a rare disorder in which two distinct personalities exist, each dominating at particular times. The condition Pamela is suffering is called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • conversion disorder.

  • dissociative identity disorder.

  • dissociative amnesia.

  • schizophrenia.

Explicación

Pregunta 120 de 132

1

Low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine are believed to be connected to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • depression.

  • panic attacks.

  • paraphilias.

  • delusions

Explicación

Pregunta 121 de 132

1

People who are convinced that every mole is skin cancer and every heart palpitation is a heart attack are most likely suffering from:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • hypochondriasis

  • agoraphobia.

  • panic attacks

  • dysthymia

Explicación

Pregunta 122 de 132

1

Which of the following perspectives suggests that faulty thinking or distorted perceptions contribute to some types of psychological disorders

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The learning perspective

  • The biological perspective

  • The cognitive perspective

  • The humanistic perspective

Explicación

Pregunta 123 de 132

1

People who experience excessive anxiety or worries that they find difficult to control are suffering from a:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • panic attack

  • generalized anxiety disorder.

  • phobia.

  • compulsive disorder.

Explicación

Pregunta 124 de 132

1

A disorder characterized by periods of extreme depression or mania is a ______________ disorder.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dissociative

  • mood

  • personality

  • somatoform

Explicación

Pregunta 125 de 132

1

Personality disorders from cluster B (including borderline and narcissistic) involve:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • erratic, overly dramatic behaviour.

  • anxious, fearful behaviour.

  • odd behaviour.

  • depressed, withdrawn behaviour.

Explicación

Pregunta 126 de 132

1

Personality disorders from cluster B (including borderline and narcissistic) involve

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • erratic, overly dramatic behaviour.

  • anxious, fearful behaviour.

  • odd behaviour.

  • depressed, withdrawn behaviour.

Explicación

Pregunta 127 de 132

1

According to the criteria for defining abnormal behaviour, when a behaviour interferes with the quality of a person’s life, then it is considered:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dangerous to the person or to other people

  • a symptom of insanity.

  • maladaptive.

  • unusual in all cultures around the world.

Explicación

Pregunta 128 de 132

1

What is the term for an irrational fear and avoidance of situations in which people believe they might embarrass or humiliate themselves by appearing clumsy, foolish, or incompetent?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Social phobia

  • Specific phobia

  • Agoraphobia

  • Complex phobia

Explicación

Pregunta 129 de 132

1

The view that schizophrenia develops from both genetic predisposition and excessive stress is called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the dopamine activity model.

  • the causal model of schizophrenia.

  • the diathesis-stress model.

  • the socio-cultural model.

Explicación

Pregunta 130 de 132

1

Which perspective emphasizes the role of the id, ego, and superego in defining psychological abnormality?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the cognitive perspective

  • the psychodynamic perspective

  • the learning perspective

  • the biological perspective

Explicación

Pregunta 131 de 132

1

Compulsion is to ________ as obsession is to _________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • anxiety; depression

  • negative symptom; positive symptom

  • neurosis; psychosis

  • behaviour; thought

Explicación

Pregunta 132 de 132

1

Paranoid, narcissistic, and histrionic are three types of:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • dissociation disorders

  • paraphilias.

  • personality disorders.

  • schizophrenias

Explicación