Forensic Psychology 1st Edition

1. In 1256, a test was formulated by the English Judge Henry de Bracton to refer to insane people who should not be held morally accountable for their actions. This was known as the A. Durham test B. Wild Beast test C. Penal Code test D. Brute Man test ANS:

CHAPTER ONE QUESTIONS 1. In 1256, a test was formulated by the English Judge Henry de Bracton to refer to insane people who should not be held morally accountable for their actions. This was known as the a. Durham test b. Wild Beast

CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand the significance of the ability to reason in the criminal law. Know the basic definition of forensic science and the disciplines which fall under this rubric. Appreciate the impact of social learning principles on aggressive behavior.

CHAPTER TEN QUESTIONS 1. Throughout history, confessions have been pivotal in three arenas, these are a. religion, psychotherapy, and civil law b. religion, psychotherapy, and criminal law c. theology, medicine, and social work d. theology, sociology, and criminology 2. In

CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand how confessions play a role in religion and psychotherapy. Appreciate why confessions are such a powerful form of evidence. Know the three types of false confessions. Understand the factors that make a person vulnerable to forced confessions. Know

CHAPTER ELEVEN QUESTIONS 1. The Romans appointed a guardian to safeguard the property of people who were mentally disabled. Such individuals were known as a. wards b. legions c. curators d. exorcists 2. During the middle ages in England,

CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know how the mentally ill were treated in America from the colonial period onward. Understand the meaning of competency in the American legal system. Know some of the essential features of a psychological competency evaluation.

CHAPTER TWELVE QUESTIONS 1. In federal criminal cases, a jury must have _____ members a. four b. six c. nine d. twelve 2. Criminal trials in state courts can use as few as _____ jurors a. four

CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know the relevance of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. Understand the effects of jury size on jury decision-making. Know how voir dire is used to determine juror bias. Understand challenge for cause and when it is used in

CHAPTER THIRTEEN QUESTIONS 1. In the 1960s the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim hypothesized that autistic children were produced by mothers who were not competent to bond emotionally with their children. He called these mothers a. refrigerator moms b. emotionally blunted moms

CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand the definition of false memories and confabulation. Know the meaning of repression and dissociation in the memory context. Understand the implications of repressed memories. Understand the significance of the McMartin Preschool Case. Appreciate the roles

CHAPTER FOURTEEN QUESTIONS 1. The manner in which available rewards are divided up among members of a group or a society is known as a. equal opportunity b. distributive justice c. restorative justice d. social justice 2. Employment discrimination

CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know the implications of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Understand how the American with Disabilities Act affects employment practices. Be aware of basic case law in employment discrimination. Understand the concepts of negative stereotyping and

CHAPTER FIFTEEN QUESTIONS 1. In the United States, about _______________ children die each year from mistreatment a. 1,100 b. 1,200 c. 1,300 d. 1,400 2. A failure to provide for a child's basic needs, an act of omission rather than one

CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand the difference between child abuse and child neglect. Know the three main types of child abuse. Know the definition of pedophilia and how it is assessed. Understand neuroimaging and how it is related to sexual offenders. Explain how online

LECTURE NOTES Treatment and Rehabilitation in Forensic Psychology Alternative Interventions Mental Health Courts The increasing criminalization of the mentally ill indicates the need for basic services and supports that public systems have failed to deliver. This has led a number of communities to establish mental health courts

CHAPTER SIXTEEN QUESTIONS 1. Mental health courts are being used by some communities to process criminal cases which involve people with a. substance abuse problems b. serious mental illness c. no financial resources d. no legal representation 2. Today

CHAPTER TWO QUESTIONS 1. The application of scientific and professional aspects of psychology to questions and issues relating to the law and the legal system is a definition of a. forensic science b. clinical forensic science c. forensic psychology d. experimental

CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand the definition of forensic psychology. Know the major issues in the education and training of forensic psychologists. Appreciate the ethical obligations of forensic psychologists. Understand the Frye and Daubert rules relating to admitting expert evidence. Understand the

CHAPTER THREE QUESTIONS 1. Behavior that has as its goal the infliction of harm upon another person who is in turn motivated to avoid the harm, is called a. violence b. aggression c. crime d. hostility 2. _______________ aggression is impulsive

CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know the difference between affective and instrumental aggression. Understand the biological and ethological explanations of aggression. Appreciate the frustration-aggression hypotheses. Understand how imitation, modeling, and reinforcement effect aggression. Know why the antisocial and narcissistic personalities are prone to aggression.

CHAPTER FOUR QUESTIONS 1. The trespassory taking and carrying away of the tangible personal property of another with the intent of depriving the other person of the property permanently or for an unreasonable period of time, is a. conversion b. larceny

CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Be able to differentiate between the concepts of possession, custody, and title. Know the components of the common law crime of robbery. Be able to explain the different forms of while collar crime. Understand the definition

CHAPTER FIVE QUESTIONS 1. Mass murder is defined then as the killing of three or more persons at a single location with no _______________ between the killings. a. deliberation b. cooling off period c. sleep d. other acts of violence

CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know the five types of mass murder. Understand the kind of mass murder Andrea Yates is associated with. Know the kind of mass murder Charles Whitman and James Huberty are associated with. Understand what kind of

CHAPTER SIX QUESTIONS 1. This type of terrorist seek the complete abolition of a political system and its replacement with new structures a. revolutionary b. separatist c. extorting d. disillusioned 2. The Italian Red Brigades, the German Red Army

CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand how lone terrorists differ from other classifications of terrorists. Be aware of the connection between terrorism and mental illness. Know how terrorism may be related to antisocial and narcissistic personalities. Understand depluralization, self-deindividuation, and other-deindividuation.

CHAPTER SEVEN QUESTIONS 1. A 1972 study revealed that police supervisors reported their best officers to be a. intelligent b. sociable c. self-assured d. all the above 2. The big five cluster of personality traits include a. fearlessness, conscientiousness,

CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know the historical roots of police psychology. Appreciate the sources and nature of stress prevalent in police work. Understand the basic elements of pre-employment psychological screening. Appreciate the circumstances when a fitness-for-duty evaluation is needed. Be aware of the

CHAPTER EIGHT QUESTIONS 1. In ancient times, fingerprints were often used as substitutes for a. brand labels b. warnings c. signatures d. both a and c 2. Sir Francis Galton classified fingerprints by their general shape. These shapes included

CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Know how modern fingerprint analysis is used in the identification of suspects. Know the mechanics and accuracy levels of voice identification techniques. Know the basic approaches to using the polygraph test. Understand the limits of accuracy

CHAPTER NINE QUESTIONS 1. It is estimated that approximately __________ innocent people are convicted each year in the United States because of mistaken eyewitness identification a. 9, 500 b. 3, 500 c. 4,500 d. 1,500 2. The generation of memory

CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand the importance of eyewitness testimony in a criminal trial. Know the history of psychological research into eyewitness accuracy. Know how eyewitness accuracy, perception and memory are related. Be aware of the estimator variables in eyewitness accuracy. Appreciate the