Forensic Psychology Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Forensic Psychology explores the intersection of psychological principles and the legal system, examining how psychological knowledge is applied within criminal and civil justice contexts. The course covers key topics such as criminal behavior, mental health assessments, police and courtroom procedures, eyewitness testimony, victimology, and the psychological profiling of offenders. Students will learn how forensic psychologists assist with investigations, provide expert testimony, assess competency, and contribute to policy development. Real-world case studies illuminate ethical issues, challenges, and the impact of psychological research on legal decision-making, preparing students for advanced study or careers in psychology, law enforcement, or legal advocacy.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 10th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) How does Robert Merton's Strain Theory explain crimes of the rich and powerful?
Answer: Robert mertons Strain theory of deviance states that the individuals living in a society are put pressure by the society such that they should achieve particular goals. This pressure occurs even when the individuals do not have particular means so as to achieve those goals, and this results in strain in the minds of these people, such that people would commit crimes such that they would want to achieve those goals. This is very much understood in case of poor people. But for the riches, this occurs when some people are asked to work in offices and societies, where they wouldnt be able to adjust and would have to work under pressure such that they would live up to the dreams.
Q2) ADAM, Monitoring the Future, and NHSDA are all examples of surveys that collect data on:
A) drug use.
B) hate crime.
C) sex offending.
D) status offenses.
E) juvenile violent crime.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Research on sibling influence on delinquency indicates:
A) the risk of delinquency is lower when the delinquent sibling is closer in age
B) older siblings reinforce antisocial behavior regardless of the relationship between the siblings.
C) older siblings reinforce antisocial behavior only when the siblings have a close relationship.
D) the delinquent sibling reinforces antisocial behavior when siblings are of the same gender.
E) a and c.
Answer: C
Q2) Poverty is an example of a(n) ____ risk factor
A) social
B) familial
C) economic
D) psychological
E) self-fulfilling
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) Lead exposure and maternal malnutrition are examples of environmental hazards.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Research on twin studies has shown that, as twins age, the influence of a shared environment increases while the influence of a nonshared environment wanes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to Laurence Steinberg (2008, 2010), high risk taking during adolescence is explained by the interaction of the socioemotional and cognitive control systems. This theory is called:
A) Dual systems model
B) Executive function theory
C) Limbic theory
D) Introversion/Extroversion theory
E) Positivist model
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and
Situational Factors
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Q1) B. F. Skinner believed in difference-in-degree approach to studying human behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which individual is an example of a well-known social learning theorist?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Hans Eysenck
C) Howard Cloward
D) Julian Rotter
E) John Watson
Q3) Describe and discuss the situational factors that can influence criminal behavior. In addition to those mentioned in this Chapter, what others might be identified?
Q4) Explain the difference between Sutherland's differential association theory and Akers' differential association-reinforcement theory.
Q5) Describe Zimbardo's prison experimen
Q6) Increasing behavior by avoiding an unpleasant stimulus is referred to as punishment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) All violent behavior is aggressive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Konrad Lorenz believed that a principle purpose of aggression in animals is to:
A) keep the species population down to a survival level.
B) kill other species.
C) defend and protect "staked out" territory.
D) demonstrate which species is the most powerful and controlling.
E) reproduce.
Q3) The perspective of human nature that argues that humans are intimately tied to their animal ancestry in important and significant ways is known as the ________ perspective.
A) difference-in-degree
B) difference-in-kind
C) medical model
D) parataxis
E) difference in cognition
Q4) Aggressive behavior is always criminal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquency
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Q1) The Girls Study Group found that girls fight more frequently at home with parents than do boys.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which status offense has substantially increased in recent years?
A) Running away.
B) Incorrigibility.
C) Underage drinking.
D) Truancy.
E) Cocaine use.
Q3) _____ is the stage of development described in Moffitt's 2002 follow-up study in which young people flounder, choosing not to occupy traditional adult roles such as marriage or parenthood.
A) Advanced life-course persistent
B) Adolescent extension
C) Early onset persistent delinquent
D) Delayed maturity
E) Emerging adulthood
Q4) Define (1) legal delinquency, (2) social delinquency, and (3) psychological delinquency.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) The Psychopathy Checklist was specifically designed to identify:
A) secondary psychopaths.
B) potential psychopaths during childhood.
C) only those psychopaths without criminal tendencies.
D) only those psychopaths who engage in violent or sadistic acts.
E) psychopaths in male prison populations.
Q2) The childhood of the psychopath is often characterized by:
A) hyperactivity.
B) cruelty to animals.
C) enuresis.
D) fire setting.
E) poor school performance.
Q3) Which individual was not mentioned in the Chapter as a likely example of a psychopath?
A) Faye Ellen Simpson
B) Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.
C) Neville Heath
D) Charles Manson
E) Hannibal Lechter
Q4) List and describe briefly the four hypothesized dimensions of psychopathy.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) Disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual are all subtypes of:
A) schizophrenia.
B) paranoia.
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) delusional disorder.
E) bipolar disorder.
Q2) Discuss the controversy associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Define the term iatrogenic and discuss how this term relates to this debate.
Q3) DSM stands for:
A) Dissociative Somatic Manual.
B) Diagnoses of Serious Mentality.
C) Douglas Simpson Marker.
D) Diagnostic Statistical Manual.
E) Developmental Symbolic Marker
Q4) Statistics show that more than half of all prison and jail inmates might benefit from mental health treatment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) George and Bill walk into a bar, order a drink and begin playing pool. Several minutes later, one of the bar's regulars, Steve, hollers across the bar and calls Bill a sissy girl. Bill punches Steve and a fist fight ensues. This scenario depicts an example of:
A) emasculated jealousy.
B) reactive aggression.
C) alcohol induced violence.
D) conduct disorder.
E) none of the above.
Q2) In family violence, the term "battering" is generally reserved for:
A) heterosexual physical violence.
B) psychological abuse.
C) emotional abuse.
D) physical violence.
E) sexual violence.
Q3) Spousal and child abuse appears to occur primarily in economically disadvantaged families.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what research tells about the perpetrators and victims of elder abuse.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) Discuss how the negative effects of bullying could be mitigated.
Q2) The primary difference between what qualifies as serial murders and what qualifies as mass murders is:
A) premeditation.
B) the selection of victims.
C) a cooling-off period.
D) the number of victims.
E) the weapons used.
Q3) Research by Fox and Levin found that most mass killings are motivated by: A) profit.
B) fear.
C) power.
D) anger.
E) revenge.
Q4) Serial murder by children or adolescents is an exceedingly are event.
A)True B)False
Q5) The majority of mass murderers plan to die at the crime scene. A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) When a person lacks motivation to act after exposure to unpleasant events over which he feels he has not control, he is probably experiencing:
A) learned helplessness.
B) learned aversion.
C) proactive depression.
D) nuchal rigidity.
E) Erickson's industry versus inferiority stage of moral development.
Q2) A process that reduces human beings to the level of nonhuman animals without individuality, dignity or autonomy is known as:
A) animal morphism.
B) deferred prosecution.
C) dehumanization.
D) degradation.
E) deindividuation.
Q3) Describe the reasons why a terrorist might volunteer for a suicide mission.
Q4) Define the three major disengagement practices often employed by terrorists to justify their actions.
Q5) Describe Bandura's six disengagement practices.
Q6) Describe the process of becoming a terrorist.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) The forceful physical resistance strategy of rape resistance may reduce the probability of _____ and increases the risk of _____.
A) identifying the attacker; rape completion
B) physical injury; sexual trauma
C) rape completion; physical injury to the victim.
D) violent behavior; rape completion
E) infuriating the attacker; rape completion.
Q2) The Knight and Sims-Knight Three-path model identifies causal pathways in the development of:
A) irresistible impulses.
B) mental disorders of rapists.
C) attitudes that support rape.
D) victim resistance to rape.
E) sexual coercive behavior in male offenders.
Q3) Describe three of the rape myths discussed in the Chapter.
Q4) Sex offenders are a homogenous group, markedly similar in age, race and socioeconomic status.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the Knight and Knight-Sims three-path model.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth and Other
Sexual Offenses
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Q1) Discussed the child offender patterns and classification system identified by the Massachusetts Treatment Center (MTC).
Q2) Fetishism is not a criminal offense.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most estimates of the distribution of pedophiles in the general population are derived from:
A) arrest data.
B) prison data.
C) self-report data.
D) data from treatment programs.
E) a and b
Q4) Clinical studies have found that _____ may have been an integral part in the development of both normal and deviant sexual behavior.
A) an embarrassing early sexual experience
B) masturbatory conditioning
C) adequate communication skills with members of the opposite sex
D) poor relationship with parent of the opposite sex
E) sexual fantasy
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Chapter 14: Property and Public Order Crime
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Q1) Medicare fraud committed by a physician would be considered _____ occupational crime under Green's categories.
A) medical
B) professional
C) individual
D) physician-assisted
E) state-authority
Q2) Describe the psychological effects of burglary on victims. How do some burglars deliberately increase these negative effects?
Q3) Burglaries are more likely to occur in January and February, after the holidays.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List some of the reasons researchers are able to access such detailed information about burglary, compared to other offenses.
Q5) The irresistible impulse to steal unneeded objects is referred to as kleptomania.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the conceptual difficulty in defining white collar crime.
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime and Crimes of Initimidation
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Q1) Research suggests hostage-taking incidents are rarely perpetrated by mentally disordered individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The backgrounds of persistent firesetters reveal that they were often:
A) the target of punishment where fire was used as the painful stimulus.
B) from families with alcoholic parents.
C) sexually abused.
D) from broken homes.
E) the youngest child in the family.
Q3) The primary motive for juvenile arsons appears to be:
A) parental revenge.
B) crime concealment.
C) financial gain.
D) vandalism.
E) fame.
Q4) Both criminal and prisoner hostage-taking situations are instrumental in nature.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define pyromania. Does research support pyromania? Explain.
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) Following a "run" of speed, the person often feels:
A) violent.
B) deeply depressed.
C) hyperactive.
D) paranoid.
E) exhausted.
Q2) Summarize and discuss the six main conclusions researchers have reached in recent years regarding the relationship between drugs and crime.
Q3) Some experts regard _____ as the most addictive drug available on the street, but other experts have questioned this assumption in recent years.
A) crack
B) heroin
C) dexedrine
D) PCP
E) marijuana
Q4) Discuss the relationship between alcohol and crime.
Q5) Define and explain drug tolerance and dependence.
Q6) Describe and explain briefly Goldstein's tripartite conceptual model for understanding the drug/crime relationship.
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