Forensic Psychology Test

What are some aspects of Cloninger's two-threshold model?

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What is the difference between factor 1 and factor 2 psychopathy checklist

1 is superficial charm and 2 is grandiose sense of charm

Why is antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) NOT psychopathy?

ASPD focuses on criminal aspects and psychopathy is more about personality

What are the three things that Kanazawa say was a proximate cause?

Accounts for majority of crimes, sex difference, and intelligence

WHat are some characteristics of a secondary psychopath

Commit antisocial acts, due to inner conflict or emotional problem, display characteristics that appear as personality, but are due to emtional problems

What did Kanazawa say was a proximate cause?

Crime is an expression of competitive desire

What differs psychopathy from the other two routes to criminal behavior is that it is a

Facultative response

What is inclusive fitness?

Kin selection or likeliness that a perpetrator would not be genetically related to the victim

What are some explanations for the crime drop?

Lesser access to firearms, use of softer drugs, increased police activities, increased imprisonment, and improved economy

Which assessments are good and which are bad in guiding treatment of offenders

MMPI=bad, PCL=R=bad, VRAG=good

What was the first account of psychopathic behaviors called

Mask of Sanity

What are some characteristics of a primary psychopath

Most dangerous of the three

Those who have competitive disadvantage begin life with

Neurodevelopment insults or some type of neurological problem, disadvantaged environments

What are characteristics of dyssocial psychopaths

People who learn aggressive and antisocial behavior from subculture, behavior that looks psychopaths but wouldn't have been seen early on

What three categories can psychological assessments be divided into

Personality, attitudes, C.R.A.P.

According to Robert Hare, what were the three psychopathy types?

Primary, secondary, and dyssocial

Kanazawa believes the underlying factor for crime incident is

Productivity

What is Robert Hare most well known for developing

Psychopath checklist

What was the outcome of Harris, Rice, and Camilleri (2004) study regarding offenders with mental illness?

That the same correlates that make anyone in the general population commit a crime are the same for the mentally ill

Mathematically, Kanazawa showed that the age-sex crime curve is

The difference between reproductive benefits minus costs

What is competitive disadvantage according to evolutionary psychology?

Those adopted a long-term mating effort strategy would have outcompeted those who did not

What is young male syndrome?

Young men are likely to accept risk to compete for reproductively relevant goals and more likely com compete than others

What does the M'Naghten Rule mean in regards to the current laws of offenders with mental illness?

a person with a mental illness who commits a crime but knew what they were doing at the time will serve their punishment, as guilty

A prisoner diagnosed with mental retardation is more likely to commit a crime

against a person

What are some factors (other than maternal age) that can result in maternal filicide?

child defects, marital status or mother, genetic relatedness ( whether they are biological or stepparents)

What are some crime correlates of developmental disability

childhood behavioral problems, unemployment, low socioeconomic status, deviant sexual preferences

Which is not a purpose of assessment of violent offenders

educate the offender

What are some risks associated with uxoricide (killing one's wife)

familiar retribution (may be disowned by family), not being able to find another partner, raising children alone

Historically, psychopaths were thought to be

flawed in terms of personality, inbred, and evil

Daly and Wilson view uxoricide as a byproduct because

if coercive control is to keep a partner, then killing a partner is counterproductive

What are the three variables that correlate and underlie most criminal behavior?

mating effort, risk taking, and antisociality

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What is criminogenic need

the characteristics that are related to committing crimes and need to be addressed

What is taxon?

the hypothesis that suggests psychopaths are a distinct group of nonarbitrary class

What is male sexual proprietariness

the idea that men view women as having the right to take ownership over them

What does the error management theory suggest?

the men feel better to overestimate a partner's infidelity than to underestimate it

What is the relationship between maternal age and maternal filicide

the younger a woman the more likely that they are to commit maternal filicide (killing of their child)

What is culkoldy risk

the risk of a women cheating on her husband

Which of the four are not reasons why honor killings are so common

vengeance feels good

Frequency dependent selection is

when selection favors a gene when it is rare, and disfavors it when it becomes more common

What are three major paths of offending?

young male syndrome, competitive disadvantage, and psychopathy