1. Several suicides within the same group of people in a brief period are called _____ suicides.
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Cluster
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2. By the age of _____, children are less likely to throw temper tantrums.
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4 or 5
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3. The gender effects of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) on girls cause them to ________.
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Engage in many sex-atypical behaviors
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4. Some studies have linked male homosexuality to having a greater number of ____.
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Older brothers
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5. _____ is defined as criminals’ typical patterns of faulty thoughts and beliefs.
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Thinking Errors
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6. _____ is an individual characteristic identifiable as early as infancy that constitutes a habitual mode of emotionally responding to stimuli.
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Temperament
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7. Is sociopaths all sociopaths are criminals by definition. The development of sociopathy is not as closely tied to genetics as it is in psychopaths but is developed primarily through inadequate socialization and hostile childhood experiences?
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True
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8. _____ is known as the idea that if an individual lacks environmental risk factors that predispose toward antisocial behavior yet still engages in antisocial behavior, the causes of this behavior are more likely to be biological than social.
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Social Push Hypothesis
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9. _____ is defined as the active desire for novel, varied, and extreme sensations and experiences often to the point of taking physical and social risks to obtain them.
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Sensation Seeking
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10. _____ is a small bundle of cells at the top of the spinal cord that filter all incoming stimuli from all human senses and determine which of those stimuli are important to pay immediate attention to.
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Reticular Activating System
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11. Is psychopathy Checklist–Revised the major “pencil and paper” instrument used worldwide to assess psychopathy?
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True
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12. _____ is known as a syndrome characterized by the inability to tie the social emotions with cognition. Psychopaths come from all social classes and may or may not be criminals.
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Psychopathy
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13. _____ is defined as the relatively enduring, distinctive, integrated, and functional set of psychological characteristics that results from people’s temperaments interacting with their cultural and developmental experiences.
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Personality
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14. _____ is a personality trait that refers to the tendency to experience many situations as aversive and to react to them with irritation and anger more readily than with positive affective states.
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Negative Emotionality
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15. Is lifestyle Theory a theory stressing that crime is not just a behavior but a general pattern of life?
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True
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16. _____ is known as the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with his or her environment.
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Intelligence
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17. _____ is defined as a significant difference between a person’s verbal and performance IQ scores.
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Intellectual Imbalance
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18. _____ is a personality trait reflecting people’s varying tendencies to act on matters without giving much thought to the possible consequences (not looking before one leaps).
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Impulsiveness
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19. Is flynn Effect the upward creep in average IQ scores taking place across the last three or four generations in all countries examined?
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True
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20. _____ is known as the emotional and cognitive ability to understand the feelings and distress of others as if they were one’s own—to be able to “walk in another’s shoes.”
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Empathy
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21. _____ is defined as a personality trait composed of several secondary traits, such as well organized, disciplined, scrupulous, responsible, and reliable at one pole and disorganized, careless, unreliable, irresponsible, and unscrupulous at the other.
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Conscientiousness
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22. _____ is a complex mix of emotional and cognitive mechanisms acquired by internalizing the moral rules of one’s social group in the ongoing socialization process.
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Conscience
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23. Is classical Conditioning a mostly passive visceral form of learning depending on ANS arousal that forms an association between two paired stimuli?
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True
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24. _____ is known as part of the peripheral nervous system that carries out the basic housekeeping functions of the body by funneling messages from the environment to the various internal organs; the physiological basis of the conscience.
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Autonomic Nervous System
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25. _____ is defined as a psychiatric label described as “a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.”
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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26. _____ is the action component of empathy, that is, an active concern for the well-being of others.
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Altruism
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27. Is agreeableness the tendency to be friendly, considerate, courteous, helpful, and cooperative with others?
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True
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28. Life reviews are best associated with erikson's ____ stage of development.
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Integrity vs despair
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29. The most common explanation for the link between IQ and criminality is that ______.
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The relationship works via poor school performance
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30. ______ refers to people’s varying tendencies to act on matters without giving much thought to the consequences.
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Impulsiveness
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31. The National Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association’s Task Force have concluded that IQ tests are ______.
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Not biased against any groups
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32. In Freud’s conception of personality, the ______ is responsible for balancing a person’s selfish immoral desires with the moral and social rules they have internalized.
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Ego
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33. The RAS performs what function?
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It regulates neurological arousal
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34. While visiting a local park, Johnny’s friends are having a good time, but he is bored; to add some excitement, he starts vandalizing park benches. Johnny’s behavior is most consistent with a(n) ______.
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Underaroused RAS
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35. ______ refers to an individual’s set of relatively enduring and functionally integrated psychological characteristics.
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Personality
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36. People who are chronically under aroused have a high risk for criminal activity.
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True
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37. That offenders score lower on the verbal intelligence subscale than the overall population, but that no such disparity is found on the performance intelligence subscale, is referred to as ______.
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Intellectual imbalance
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38. We are consciously aware of the messages that channel through our autonomic nervous system.
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False
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39. In Freud’s model of personality, we are all born moral beings, but some individuals go on to learn criminal behavior through socialization.
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False
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40. Criminals typically differ from non-criminals on verbal IQ.
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True
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41. ______ conditioning is responsible for the “gut level” response we have to certain stimuli, as with a shoplifter feeling his heart race when he walks into a store.
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Classical
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42. Jimmy is walking through a store and gets the sudden urge to push down the clerk and run out of the store with a stereo without paying. While he doesn’t follow through on this impulse, the thought of doing so might best be identified as originating in his ______.
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Id
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43. Present-day psychological theories of crime acknowledge that sociological factors have an influence on human behavior.
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True
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44. The PCL-R is ______.
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The most widely used measure of psychopathy
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