Phallometry is:

Related Mcqs:

1. which of the following problems regarding phallometry is?

   A. Using phallometry to elicit confessions can increase the risk of false confessions
   B. It is not effective at deciding who is a pedophile and who is not from any group of men
   C. Normal men show erections to pubescent children and rape scents
   D. It does not assume sexual motives underlie rape

2. Phallometry is:

   A. a technique for assessing a man’s sexual responsiveness to different types of sexual imagery
   B. a measure of effect size
   C. a type of lie detector test
   D. a technique for assessing the acceptance of rape myths in rapists

3. Which of the following can be identified as a typology of rape based on the psychological motive of the rapist?

   A. Paranoid- aggressive, depressive, psychopathic, over controlled repressors
   B. Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement
   C. Feminist, social learning and evolutionary
   D. Fixated and regressed sexual offender

4. Statutory rape is:

   A. penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse
   B. rape of a female adult
   C. any form of sexual act that a woman may not wish
   D. rape of someone under mitigating circumstances

5. Isomorphism hypothesis would state that:

   A. abuse causes post-traumatic stress and thus a need to re- enact the experience
   B. if a mother has been abused this increases the risk of a child’s potential for being an abuser in the future
   C. physically abused children tend to commit physically violent offences whereas sexually abused children tend to commit sexually violent crimes in adulthood
   D. the effect of violence are more generally pathogenic than simply ‘violence leads to violence

6. Sexual also rates have increased from 1970 to 1990. What might this be the result of?

   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

7. What is the fear- victimization paradox?

   A. Those who fear crime the most tend to become the victims of crime
   B. There is little, or no relationship between and individual’s risk of victimization and their level of fear of crime
   C. It simply refers to the fear of being a victim of crime
   D. It refers to the group of people who are least bothered by the risk of being “victimized

8. The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:

   A. Cognitive interviews
   B. Offender profiling
   C. Being community- based
   D. Focus on relationship with parents

9. All of the following refer to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for_______.

   A. Leadings
   B. Change perspective
   C. Report everything
   D. Context reinstatement

10. Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?

    A. Depressive
    B. Over- controlled repressors
    C. Paranoid- aggression
    D. Homicidal protest