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