Psychology 6096 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.

What can we not say about moral reasoning and delinquency?

A When moral issues are related to crime the differences between male delinquents and male non- delinquents are their greatest

B Male delinquents are typically at Kohlberg’s pre- conventional level compare to male non- delinquents

C Offenders were typically at Kohlberg’s conventional level of moral reasoning, i.e. obtaining social approval compared non- offenders

D Non-offenders males tend to be at a lower level of moral reasoning than non- offendring females

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Correct Answer: Offenders were typically at Kohlberg’s conventional level of moral reasoning, i.e. obtaining social approval compared non- offenders

Isomorphism hypothesis would state that:

A abuse causes post-traumatic stress and thus a need to re- enact the experience

B if a mother has been abused this increases the risk of a child’s potential for being an abuser in the future

C physically abused children tend to commit physically violent offences whereas sexually abused children tend to commit sexually violent crimes in adulthood

D the effect of violence are more generally pathogenic than simply ‘violence leads to violence

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Correct Answer: physically abused children tend to commit physically violent offences whereas sexually abused children tend to commit sexually violent crimes in adulthood

Why should early problem behavior not by neglected?

A Early interventions may be costly, but they are more cost effective than ignoring the problem- this would result in higher costs of society for dealing with delinquent children later in life

B If acted on interventions can be effective at reducing future delinquency

C It is predictive of later more serious behavior

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

Statutory rape is:

A penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse

B rape of a female adult

C any form of sexual act that a woman may not wish

D rape of someone under mitigating circumstances

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Correct Answer: penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse

Which of the following is?

A Rape is frequently viewed as a crime of power, control and violence rather than sexual gratification

B There is a general trend that sexual offending begins in the early life of an offender

C Rapists have claimed to have experienced more psychological abuse than nonsexual violent offenders

D Rape of older women by strangers tends to feature more strongly in rape statistics

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Correct Answer: Rape of older women by strangers tends to feature more strongly in rape statistics

Learning is based on:

A Knowledge

B Comprehension

C Understanding

D Practice

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Correct Answer: Practice

Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?

A Sexual offences are often non- consummatory

B When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases

C Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

Which of the following can be identified as a typology of rape based on the psychological motive of the rapist?

A Paranoid- aggressive, depressive, psychopathic, over controlled repressors

B Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement

C Feminist, social learning and evolutionary

D Fixated and regressed sexual offender

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Correct Answer: Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement

which of the following problems regarding phallometry is?

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

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Correct Answer: It does not assume sexual motives underlie rape

Rape is:

A a relatively under reported crime

B tend to be carried out by men know to women rather than by strangers

C more commonly carried out by younger offenders

D all of the above

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Correct Answer: all of the above

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What can we not say about moral reasoning and delinquency?

Isomorphism hypothesis would state that:

Why should early problem behavior not by neglected?

Statutory rape is:

Which of the following is?

Learning is based on:

Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?

Which of the following can be identified as a typology of rape based on the psychological motive of the rapist?

which of the following problems regarding phallometry is?

Rape is: