A. lower
B. higher
C. inferior
D. similar
Related Mcqs:
- The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.
A. prevalence; prevalence
B. victim; criminal
C. incidence; prevalence
D. prevalence; incidence - 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 - The nation of the criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets
A. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
B. Legal- rational authority
C. Routine activities theory
D. None of these - Which of the following is true of psychics who have worked with police departments in an effort to solve difficult crimes?
A. They have used telepathy to read the mind of the criminal
B. They have provided useful predictions using all their powers in 90 percent of the cases
C. They have used precognition to forewarn the police of criminals acts
D. They have reported visions that are no more accurate than guesses - Which of the following is the main problem with pseudo- surveys?
A. they are often not really aries
B. they do not produce any reliable results
C. the environmental conditions are often not favorable
D. the sample of people used is not random - A psychologist studied a gunshot wound victim and found out that brain region destroyed is most important for memory functions. The research is _____________?
A. case study
B. survey
C. correlational
D. experimental
E. None of these - Only when experimental participants were informed that a women was raped did they perceive the women’s behavior as inviting rape> This best illustrates that victim- blaming is fueled by:
A. deindividuation
B. the bystander effect
C. the mere exposure effect
D. hindsight bias - Ms. Sadaf, a recent stroke victim, cannot consciously perceive the large book on the coffee table in front of her Yet, when urged to identify the book, she correctly reads aloud the printed title on the book cover. Her response best illustrates:
A. Synesthesia
B. Blindsight
C. Subliminal perception
D. The McGurk effect - Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.
A. heredity; the environment
B. the environment; heredity
C. the environment; the environment
D. heredity; heredity - Neurons generally cannot fire at rates exceeding 100 impulses per second. This maximum firing rate can be largely attributed to ____________?
A. spatial summation
B. relative refractory periods
C. absolute refractory periods
D. excitatory postsynaptic potentials
