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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - With respect to anagram problems, which of the following statements are correct?
A. The simplest strategy is blind search, in which you just move to letters around blindly until a phrase appears
B. Constraining the search space will help to speed up the problem-solving process
C. All the problems can be construed in terms of search spaces
D. All of the above - Which of the following psychologists is MOST likely to deal with the most severe mental health problems?
A. clinical psychologist
B. research psychologist
C. school psychologists
D. counselling psychologist - Which of the following is one reason given that more women than men are treated for psychological problems?
A. Women are subject to greater stress than man
B. As a result of cultural norms, women may be more willing to admit distress
C. Some forms of mental disorders are sex – linked recessive
D. developmental tasks required of women are far more difficult than those required for man - The clinical method is particularly useful to the study of such school problems as the following:
A. The serve reading-disability case
B. The serve stutter or stammerer
C. The chronic delinquent
D. All of the above - Which of the following explanations for the problems of obesity targets environmental factors as the cause?
A. Sedentary lifestyles mean human beings take less regular exercise, which leads to excess weight
B. Human meal times tend to be fixed which overrides body’s natural appetite and control mechanism
C. Variety of modern foods encourage people to eat more by bringing immediate rewards of new tastes smell and textures
D. Higher stress levels in contemporary society can lead to overeating
E. All of the above - Haapasalo (1999) found that the greater the maternal problems the:
A. less likely that her son would be physically abused
B. more likely that her son was physically abused
C. more likely her son would be sexually abused
D. none of these
