A. It may indicate higher level of sexual abuse
B. It may indicate an increased awareness of the dangerous abuse
C. It may reflect changes in the definition of some abuse (e.g to include more acts) producing an increase in the numbers
D. It may indicate all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?
A. Sexual offences are often non- consummatory
B. When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases
C. Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects
D. All of the above - What were the predictors of sexual delinquency by Langstrom in his study of 15- 20 years old?
A. Early childhood conduct disorder
B. Those factors which predict non- sexual delinquency such as low family income, poor accommodation, poor parenting
C. Early onset of sexually abusive behavior, male victims, multiple victims and poor social skills
D. Previous criminality, psychopathy and use of death/ threats at time of index offence - Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:
A. biological basis of aggression
B. adaptively basis of aggression
C. homicidal protest
D. media causes violence hypothesis - If a 100-Hz tone had to be increased to 110 Hz for a subject to just notice the difference, you would predict that a 1000-Hz tone would have to be increased to:
A. 1250 to be noticed
B. 1200 to be noticed
C. 1010 to be noticed
D. 1100 to be noticed - Increased level of_______causes increased water reabsorption in distal parts of Kidney:
A. Latinizing hormone
B. Thyroid stimulating hormone
C. Oxytocin
D. Luteinizing hormone - Sam’s wife always wears the same black nightgown whenever she is “in the mood” for sexual relations. Sam becomes sexually aroused as soon as he sees his wife in the nightgown. For Sam, the night is a (n):
A. unconditioned stimulus
B. unconditioned response
C. conditioned stimulus
D. conditioned response - A boy’s sexual desires for his mother and feelings of hostility toward his father constitute what Freud called:
A. displacement
B. reaction formation
C. reciprocal determinism
D. the Oedipus complex - Kinsey maintained that sexual orientation:
A. depends on early classical conditioning experiences
B. should be viewed as a continuum
C. depends on normalities and abnormalities in the amygdala
D. should be viewed as an either-or distinction - Our sexual attraction toward members of either the same sex or the opposite sex is called our.
A. sexual orientation
B. gender identity
C. sexual identity
D. set point - Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?
A. External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
B. Pre-optic area and estrogen
C. Interpersonal attraction and financial stability
D. Intelligence and physical attractiveness
