A. When moral issues are related to crime the differences between male delinquents and male non- delinquents are their greatest
B. Male delinquents are typically at Kohlberg’s pre- conventional level compare to male non- delinquents
C. Offenders were typically at Kohlberg’s conventional level of moral reasoning, i.e. obtaining social approval compared non- offenders
D. Non-offenders males tend to be at a lower level of moral reasoning than non- offendring females
Related Mcqs:
- Moral behavior in conformity with the moral code of the social group “moral” comes from the____word mores, meaning manners, customs and folkways:
A. Greek
B. Latin
C. English
D. Arabic - Inductive reasoning goes from the specific to the general. Which of the following is analogous to inductive reasoning?
A. top-down processing
B. bottom-up processing
C. perceptual expectancies
D. illusions - 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 - Which perspective is most concerned with identifying the limits of human reasoning?
A. behavioral
B. cognitive
C. biological
D. social-cultural - Research studies that examine people’s responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:
A. Logic
B. Detection of the problem
C. Conditional of the problem
D. Heuristics
E. Representation of the problem - Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except for:
A. Occurs automatically
B. Fast analysis of information
C. Strong feeling of conviction
D. Logical analysis - While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?
A. Rationality is not absolute
B. Experiments lack ecological validity
C. Satisficing responses are rational responses
D. People have limited time and data available
E. All of the above - Despite huge legal costs and social disapproval, Mr. Lambers refuses to pay Income taxes because his conscience will not allow him to support a government that spends billion of dollars on military weapons. Mr. Lambers’ reasoning best illustrate Kohiberg’s______stage.
A. concrete operational
B. preconventional
C. conventional
D. postconventional - Moral panic is:
A. an overreaction against an event, such as a type of crime, which is seen as a threat to society’s values
B. the view that the world is full of crime and violence
C. a concept applied to mugging
D. a study of youth crime in Britain
