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Psychology 6084 MCQs [All-Courses]

Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior, mental processes, emotions, and personality. It is an important subject for competitive exams such as PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, CSS, and PMS.

The following qualities make a good except for______.

A Preparing a story on the spot

B Being original

C Good acting ability

D Not experiencing emotion

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Correct Answer: Preparing a story on the spot

All of the following refer to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for_______.

A Leadings

B Change perspective

C Report everything

D Context reinstatement

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Correct Answer: Leadings

Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

A Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’

B Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge

C Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence

D Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources

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Correct Answer: Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence

Which of the following are includes in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?

A Overly harsh or lax parenting style

B Criminality in the family

C Low intelligence

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:

A Antisocial behavior

B History of mental illness

C Family criminality

D A and C

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Correct Answer: A and C

The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:

A Distal factors

B Conduct disorder

C Poor parenting

D (b) and (c)

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Correct Answer: (b) and (c)

Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

A Anger management

B Encoding social cues

C Deception

D Memory retrieval

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Correct Answer: Encoding social cues

The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:

A Cognitive interviews

B Offender profiling

C Being community- based

D Focus on relationship with parents

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Correct Answer: Being community- based

Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

A Aggression replacement training

B What Works program

C Statement validity assessment

D The Cambridge study

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Correct Answer: The Cambridge study

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

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Correct Answer: The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component

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Psychology 6084 MCQs [All-Courses]

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The following qualities make a good except for______.

All of the following refer to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for_______.

Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

Which of the following are includes in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?

Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:

The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:

Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:

Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

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?