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

Related Mcqs:

Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:
A. the law effect
B. stimulus generalization
C. stimulus discrimination
D. an overactive imagination
Victim surveys generally indicate______ rate of victimization than do number of crimes known to the police.
A. lower
B. higher
C. inferior
D. similar
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
Our levels of fear may be influenced by:
A. personal experience
B. crime news
C. aspects of our personality which make us more, or less, afraid of crime
D. all of the options above
A child who has been frightened by a dog develops a fear response to all dogs. This is known as:
A. Stimulus Discrimination
B. Extinction
C. Spontaneous recovery
D. Stimulus Generalization
Watson trained Little Albert to fear a white rat. In his experiment the loud noise was a (n):
A. Unconditioned response
B. Conditioned stimulus
C. Conditioned response
D. Unconditioned stimulus
Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.
A. classical; operant
B. operant; classical
C. classical; classical
D. operant; operant
Which of these is not a common behaviour displayed by individuals when they are in contact with a fear stimulus?
A. Decreased heart rate
B. Palpitations
C. Sweating
D. Shortness of birth
Discomfort in social situations, fear of evaluation, and timidity are characteristic of what personality disorder?
A. histrionic
B. obsessive – compulsive
C. schizoid
D. avoidant
Our levels of fear may be influenced by:
A. personal expense
B. crime news
C. aspects of our personality which make us more, or less, afraid of crime
D. all of the options above