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Family Violence and Child Victimization MCQ

Family Violence and Child Victimization MCQ

 

1. The textbook states that _________ is the most critical influence on adolescents' adjustment.

Answer

Correct Answer: The quality of the parent-child relationships at home

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2. The percentage of u.s. school-age children who live in single-parent households is _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: 31%

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3. Compared with single-parent homes, two-parent homes usually have _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Higher income

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4. Is vicarious traumatization occurs when clinicians are exposed to a series of trauma victims, which often leads to a high incidence of professional burnout?

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Correct Answer: True

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5. _____ is known as refers to the research finding that the things we experience in one emotional or physiological state—such as happiness, fear, or even intoxication—are sometimes easier to recall when we are again in that same state.

Answer

Correct Answer: state-dependent memory

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6. _____ is defined as evaluates an individual’s risk of committing violence against a spouse or intimate partner.

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Correct Answer: Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA)

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7. _____ is see Abusive head trauma.

Answer

Correct Answer: Shaken baby syndrome (SBS)

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8. Is repression refers to the psychological process of keeping something out of awareness because of the traumatic effect connected with it?

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Correct Answer: True

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9. _____ is known as state of being unaware that a traumatic event occurred.

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Correct Answer: repressed memory

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10. _____ is defined as perspective that memory is continually vulnerable to revision.

Answer

Correct Answer: reconstructive theory of memory

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11. _____ is instrument recommended for use by law enforcement officers and others to determine the likelihood that an individual will commit future violence within the family.

Answer

Correct Answer: Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA)

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12. Is neonaticide the killing of a newborn, usually under 48 hours old, sometimes defined as under 24 hours old?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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13. _____ is known as an unusual form of child abuse in which the parent (usually the mother) or par­ents consistently bring a child for medical attention with symptoms falsified or directly induced by the parent or parents. Term is gradu­ally being replaced by the term child medical abuse.

Answer

Correct Answer: Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP)

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14. _____ is defined as violent crimes commit­ted against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends.

Answer

Correct Answer: Intimate partner violence (IPV)

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15. _____ is normal lack of memory of events that happened very early in one’s life, typically but not necessarily before age 4.

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Correct Answer: infantile amnesia

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16. Is infanticide although this term literally means the killing of an infant, it is also used for the killing of a child by a parent, and is then divided into neonaticide and filicide?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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17. _____ is known as a process whereby mental or physical disorders are unintentionally induced or developed in patients by physicians, clinicians, or psychotherapists.

Answer

Correct Answer: iatrogenic effect

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18. _____ is defined as batterers who are likely to use weapons and who are more prone to inflict severe injury on wives, partners, and other family members, in addition to engaging in extrafamilial violence.

Answer

Correct Answer: Generally violent/antisocial batterers

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19. _____ is refers to memory—usually considerably accurate—of high-impact events, such as an automobile accident or a mass shooting.

Answer

Correct Answer: flashbulb memory

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20. Is filicide killing of one’s child who is older than 1 year?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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21. _____ is known as these are violent offenders who usually do not engage in violence outside the family. Their violence tends to be periodic, primarily when stress and frustration reach a peak.

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Correct Answer: family-only batterers

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22. _____ is defined as refers to any assault, including sexual assault, or other crime that results in the personal injury or death of one or more family or household member(s) by another who is or was residing in the same dwelling.

Answer

Correct Answer: family violence

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23. _____ is defined as the physical, financial, emotional, or psychological harm of an older adult, usually defined as age 65 or older.

Answer

Correct Answer: elder abuse

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24. Is dysphoric/borderline batterers batterers who exhibit mental disorders and are psychologically disturbed and emotionally volatile. These individuals often engage in moderate to severe spousal abuse, including psychological and sexual abuse?

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Correct Answer: True

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25. _____ is known as one of the measures used to assess the extent of violence in a relationship and predict the likelihood of future occurrence.

Answer

Correct Answer: Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG)

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26. _____ is defined as a measure used by researchers and clinicians to gauge the level of disruption and violence in inter­personal relationships.

Answer

Correct Answer: Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)

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27. _____ is unlawfully leading, taking, enticing, or detaining a child under a specified age with intent to keep or conceal the child from the parent, guardian, or other person having lawful custody.

Answer

Correct Answer: child abduction

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28. Is battering a term often reserved for physical violence experienced in intimate relationships, such as in a dating relationship, marriage or partnership, or separation and divorce?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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29. _____ is known as a cluster of behav­ioral and psychological characteristics believed common to women who have been abused in relationships.

Answer

Correct Answer: Battered woman syndrome (BWS)

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30. _____ is defined as severe damage to a child’s brain as a result of head injury sustained by the actions of another, typically a parent or caretaker (e.g., shaking, throwing against a wall). Formerly called shaken baby syndrome.

Answer

Correct Answer: Abusive head trauma (AHT)

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31. Rates of child sexual abuse have declined since the 1990s.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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32. The Conflict Tactics Scale is a risk assessment instrument used for determining the ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Extent of intimate partner violence

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33. Research suggests that the more frequent and severe the IPV, the more likely that various kinds of child abuse are also occurring.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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34. The majority of IPV victims eventually kill their abusers.

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Correct Answer: False

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35. Which of the following is a motivation for women who abuse men?

Answer

Correct Answer: Self-defense

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36. The courts refer to repressed-then-recovered memory as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Delayed discovery

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37. Many people cannot recall events that occurred prior to age three. This is known as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Infantile amnesia

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38. The most frequent perpetrators of elder abuse are health-care workers.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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39. Which type of child abduction is the most common?

Answer

Correct Answer: Parental abduction

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40. In Munchausen syndrome by proxy, the child’s presenting symptoms are falsified by the ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Parent

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41. A woman who conceals her pregnancy and then kills her newborn infant within the first 24 hr after birth has committed ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Neonaticide

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42. According to Meuer et al.’s (2002) nine stages of IPV, the first incident of physical abuse usually occurs in ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Stage five

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43. All of the following are stages of battered women syndrome except the ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Dysphoric/borderline phase

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44. Which type of male batterer constitutes about 50% of known batterers and is the least likely to have a previous arrest record?

Answer

Correct Answer: Family-only

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45. Compared to domestic violence, intimate partner violence can best be described as a more ______ term.

Answer

Correct Answer: Inclusive

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