A. Age (tend to be young)
B. Males
C. Brain dysfunction
D. Associated with alcohol
Related Mcqs:
- Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?
A. Eclectic approach
B. Psychodynamic
C. Humanistic
D. Biological - Which of the following are NOT necessarily characteristics of an authoritarian personality? people with authoritarian personalities tend to:
1.Have experienced harsh family rearing strategies.
2.Hate their parents.
3.Idolize power figures.
4.Strive for a changing world order.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 2 & 4
D. 1 & 3 - As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?
A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity - Primary sex characteristics are to_______as secondary sex characteristics are to_______.
A. assimilation; accommodation
B. male testes; adrenal glands
C. male testes; female ovaries
D. female ovaries; depended male voice - Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty
A. 1,2 & 3
B. 1 & 2
C. 2 & 3
D. 3 & 4 - In the British Crime survey, who had high levels of worry about burglary and violent crime?
A. Professionals
B. Women
C. Men
D. Those over 75 years- of age - Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?
A. Anger management
B. Encoding social cues
C. Deception
D. Memory retrieval - The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:
A. Distal factors
B. Conduct disorder
C. Poor parenting
D. (b) and (c) - Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:
A. Antisocial behavior
B. History of mental illness
C. Family criminality
D. A and C - Forensic and criminal psychologists should exercise great caution before assuming that the media plays a role in generating violent criminality. Which of the following would support this caution?
A. The media give a similar message about violence as do other sources of socialization. Indeed, the media give messages about when it is appropriate to use violence and when it is not
B. Young violent offenders prefer violent videos compared to controls but they also tend to have been abused by their parents. When this factor is taken into account their media consumption is not different from controls
C. Violent crime statistics in the states show a delayed effect as result of the introduction of violent television but this claim is not supported in Great Britain
D. All of the above
