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Q: Any one of a variety of processes available for the resolution of disputes other than through traditional litigation is referred to as a. negotiation b. alternative dispute resolution c. mediation d. arbitration

Q: The first full-time police officer in the country to earn a Ph.D. in psychology was a. Robert Jordan b. Simon Eisdorfer c. Harvey Schlossberg d. R.B. Cattell

Q: One big difference between negotiation and mediation is that a. mediation takes place through the court b. mediation involves a third party c. negotiation takes place through the court d. negotiation involves a third party

Q: All of the following are tests designed to measure cognitive functioning except a. the Hilson-Denning Reading Test b. the Wonderlic Personnel Test c. the Shipley Institute of Living Scale d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Q: "Mental health courts" are being used by some communities to process criminal cases which involve people with a. substance abuse problems b. serious mental illness c. no financial resources d. no legal representation

Q: In Jordan v. City of New London (2000), the issue(s) at hand was(were) a. does a low I.Q. score disqualify someone from being a police officer? b. can someone be too intelligent to be a police officer? c. does age discrimination apply to public safety jobs? d. all the above

Q: Today there are about _______________ mental health courts in this country a. 10 to 15 b. 15 to 20 c. 25 to 30 d. 90 to 100

Q: In Jordan v. City of New London (2000), the test used by the city of New London was the a. the Hilson-Denning Reading Test b. the Wonderlic Personnel Test c. the Shipley Institute of Living Scale d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Q: Approximately _______________ individuals with severe mental illnesses are incarcerated at any given moment in this country a. a quarter million b. a half million c. three quarters of a million d. a million

Q: Which of the following tests is not commonly used in police pre-employment screening? a. Inwald Personality Inventory b. Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire c. Rorschach Inkblot Test d. California Psychological Inventory

Q: About ______ of the inmates in state and local jails suffer from a mental illness a. 5% b. 10% c. 16% d. 20%

Q: United States' courts at all levels have generally been _______________of police departments' rights to order fitness-for-duty evaluations and for making the necessary and appropriate recommendations based on these evaluations a. unsupportive b. suspicious c. dismissive d. supportive

Q: Scale 9 on the MMPI assesses a. psychopathic-deviate b. depression c. hypomania d. schizophrenia

Q: Financial exploitation of the elderly includes a. misuse of an elder's funds b. taking money under false pretenses c. forced property transfers d. all the above

Q: Any attitude, action, or institutional structure which subordinates a person or group because of age or any assignment of roles in society purely on the basis of age, is called a. vulnerable elder neglect b. fraud c. elder abandonment d. ageism

Q: Hargrave & Hiatt (1987) as well as other researchers, have found that officers rated as unsatisfactory by their supervisors tend to score higher on scales _____, _____, and _____ on the MMPI than do satisfactory officers. a. 4, 8, 9 b. 5, 6, 9 c. 5, 8, 9 d. 4, 6, 9

Q: Abusive caregivers often erroneously believe that their behaviors are caused by _______________ a. the expectations of society b. the victim c. non-primary family members d. all the above

Q: Acts of murder, often religiously influenced, in which a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior is called a. filicide b. honor killing c. infanticide d. patricide

Q: The most widely used psychological test in police applicant pre-employment psychological screening is the a. IPI b. 16-PF c. MMPI d. CPI

Q: The killing of female babies and young girls solely due to their sex is called a. gendercide b. matricide c. fratricide d. patricide

Q: The MMPI is divided into _______________ and _______________ scales a. validity, personality b. validity, clinical c. clinical, personality d. honesty, psychopathic

Q: Between _______________ Americans age 65 or older are injured, exploited, or otherwise mistreated every year by someone on whom they depended for care or protection a. one-half and one million b. one and one-half million c. one and two million d. two and three million

Q: Scale 4 of the MMPI assesses a. psychopathic-deviate b. depression c. hypomania d. schizophrenia

Q: Physical abuse accounts for _____ of the substantiated cases of elder mistreatment in the United States a. 5% b. 10% c. 15% d. 20%

Q: Abandonment occurs when an older person is deserted by his or her caregiver who previously had assumed responsibility for providing care for that individual. Neglect refers to the refusal or failure of a person to uphold obligations to care for an older person. This type of elder mistreatment, accounts for _____ of all substantiated cases. a. 10% b. 20% c. 35% d. 55%

Q: As a corrective measure under the ADA, making changes in the nature of an employee's job is called a. job conciliation b. job compliance c. reasonable compliance d. reasonable accommodation

Q: The deliberate killing of a newborn is called a. filicide b. matricide c. infanticide d. patricide

Q: Pre-employment psychological screening of police applicants encompasses three spheres, these are a. cognitive assessment, personality assessment, and interview b. background investigation, polygraph, and interview c. cognitive assessment, background investigation, and polygraph d. personality assessment, written examination, and polygraph

Q: A technique which measures mental activity and brain patterns is called a. neuroimaging b. cingulate gyrus imagery c. orbitofrontal cortex imagery d. EKG

Q: Decades of research have shown that _______________is a valuable predictor of work performancefor many occupational categories, including police work a. moral reasoning b. planning ability c. impulse control d. cognitive ability

Q: One explanation for why child victims of intra-family sexual abuse may be reluctant to disclose their experiences is called the a. Stockholm syndrome b. child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome c. repressed memory syndrome d. parental alienation syndrome

Q: According to Carter and Radelet (1999), it is the _______________ that is/are most damaging to police officers a. cumulative interactive stressors b. individual stressful events c. negative supervisory experiences d. boredom interspersed with extreme excitement

Q: _____ of children say they trust the people they meet on the World Wide Web a. 5% b. 7% c. 10% d. 39%

Q: Under the law, the failure of a police department to properly select police officers can best be considered a form of a. public irresponsibility b. negligent hiring c. negligent retention d. negligent entrustment

Q: Some online sexual predators gradually seduce children by giving them attention and showing affection and kindness. This is known as the _______________ approach a. soft sell b. alluring c. attractive d. hard sell

Q: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is administered by which federal agency? a. the Congress b. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions c. the federal courts d. the Civil Rights Commission

Q: Adult men who pursue adolescent girls and boys on the Web are more likely to have a. criminal histories b. less education c. feelings of inadequacy d. all the above

Q: This type of therapy helps patients identify their trauma-related negative beliefs and to change them to reduce distress a. systematic desensitization b. psychoanalytic therapy c. self-calming therapy d. cognitive-behavioral therapy

Q: A sexual preference for pubescent children is called a. pre-nubile voyeurism b. urophilia c. coprophilia d. hebephilia

Q: This type of therapy uses a combination of imagined "reliving" of traumatic events, and "in vivo" confrontation of traumatic triggers in the outside world a. stress-inoculation therapy b. exposure therapy c. cognitive-behavioral therapy d. systematic desensitization

Q: Which of the following is not a self-report questionnaire used to assess pedophilia? a. The Multiphasic Sex Inventory b. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory c. The Clarke Sexual History Questionnaire d. The Wilson Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire

Q: A 1972 study revealed that police supervisors reported their best officers to be a. intelligent b. sociable c. self-assured d. all the above

Q: Self-report questionnaires, like interviews, are vulnerable to a. self-report bias b. lying c. inhibition falsification d. a and b

Q: The "big five" cluster of personality traits include a. fearlessness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism b. arrogance, fearlessness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness c. openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism d. conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and self-discipline

Q: Engaging in sex with non-human animals is called a. fetishism b. frotteurism c. zoophilia d. asphyxiophilia

Q: An aversion to differences in people, a desire for conformity to prevailing social norms and authority, strict morality, political and social intolerance, an aversion to ambiguity, and a desire for clear and unambiguous authority, are all part of the _______________ personality a. fanatic b. authoritarian c. terrorist d. fundamentalist

Q: Sex with the dead or someone pretending to be dead is called a. zoophilia b. necrophilia c. asphyxiophilia d. voyeurism

Q: Flashbacks, nightmares, loss of emotions, detachment, difficulty sleeping, and feeling irritable and on edge, are all symptoms of a. posttraumatic stress disorder b. stress-induced depersonalization disorder c. agoraphobia d. pan-phobic stress disorder

Q: The modus operandi of pedophiles is usually to first a. frighten their victims into submission b. figure out an escape plan from their activities c. gain the trust of their victim d. coax the child into allowing him/herself to be touched

Q: Beck (2002) regards many terrorists as becoming so engaged in their mission that their thinking and actions focus exclusively on the destruction of the target. He terms this a. overgeneralization b. depluralization c. tunnel vision d. deindividuation

Q: Childhood sexual abuse can result in a. anxiety and guilt b. fear and withdrawal c. posttraumatic stress disorder d. all the above

Q: The process the process whereby terrorist recruits give up all their former ties and affiliations is called a. moral disengagement b. deindividuation c. depluralization d. diffusion of responsibility

Q: Pedophilia is synonymous with a. sexual offending against children b. child molestation c. rape d. none of the above

Q: The process by which people feel less culpable when, either in the presence of, or on behalf of a group, they engage in harmful or even heinous behavior, is called a. dehumanization b. deindividuation c. diffusion of responsibility d. tunnel vision

Q: Pedophilia is a _______________ term a. legal b. socio-cultural c. medical/psychiatric/psychological d. social psychological

Q: The process by which terror group members are asked to take on a new personal identity both internally (such as values and beliefs) and externally (such as manner of dress), is called a. dehumanization b. demonization c. cognitive restructuring d. self-deindividuation

Q: A condition in which a person's ability for sexual arousal and gratification is based upon fantasizing about and engaging in sexual behavior that is atypical and usually extreme, is called _______________ a. paraphilia b. fetish c. urophilia d. sadism

Q: The social psychological conditioning process whereby group members become convinced that the enemy is in league with the devil or represent some kind of cosmic evil, is called a. demonization b. dehumanization c. obedience d. Satanism

Q: Rubbing against a non-consenting person, usually in a crowded and constrained space such as an elevator, is called a. voyeurism b. exhibitionism c. fetishism d. frotteurism

Q: In Milgram's 1963 study of obedience, how many subjects continued to the highest shock level despite the cries of the victim? a. 20 out of 40 b. 33 out of 40 c. 37 out of 40 d. 40 out of 40

Q: The average rate of childhood sexual abuse recalled by men is _____ a. 10% b. 20% c. 25% d. 45%

Q: The People's Temple is associated with which religious cult leader? a. Ramzi Yousef b. Jim Jones c. Eric Robert Rudolph d. Paul Hill

Q: Behavioral patterns suggestive of possible childhood sexual abuse include a. running away from home in girls b. an unusually high degree of sexual knowledge for both sexes c. early sexual intercourse for both sexes d. both b and c

Q: Emotional child abuse includes a. constant criticism b. rejection c. pushing d. both a and b

Q: Some theorists hold that terrorism is a form of _______________ or an intense overreaction to not being able to acquire or maintain power or control by intimidation, thus resulting in shame a. narcissistic rage b. mental illness c. bipolar disorder d. dehumanization

Q: Which of the following would not be an example of child sexual abuse? a. indecent touching of a child b. burning with a lit cigarette c. rape d. forcing the child to view pornography

Q: The psychological literature suggests that many terrorists suffer from a. schizophrenia b. bipolar disorder c. affective disorder d. none of the above

Q: About _____ of child sexual abuse is committed by parents a. 10% b. 50% c. 70% d. 80%

Q: The psychological literature suggests that the personality disorder terrorists are most likely to exhibit, if at all, is a. schizoid personality disorder b. narcissistic personality disorder c. antisocial personality disorder d. borderline personality disorder

Q: Relatives other than parents account for _____ of child sexual abuse a. 5% b. 7% c. 9% d. 11%

Q: Individuals with a damaged self-concept may utilize the primitive defense of __________ to blame an outside enemy for their own inadequacies and weaknesses a. frustration-aggression b. splitting c. externalization d. either b or c

Q: The average rate of childhood sexual abuse recalled by women is _____ a. 10% b. 20% c. 25% d. 45%

Q: "Dichotomous thinking" is where a. people are seen as either totally good or totally bad b. only one side of an argument is believed c. voices are heard d. thinking abruptly shifts from rational to irrational

Q: "The unlawful attack or threat of attack against computers, computer networks, or information stored on computers, with the intent to intimidate or coerce in order to achieve political or social objectives" is called a. hacktivism b. Cyberterrorism c. ISP terror d. network terror

Q: About _____ of child maltreatment is composed of physical abuse a. 5% b. 9% c. 15% d. 19%

Q: This word, meaning literally "hashish-eater," comes from Muslim a sect who, between 1090 and 1272 CE, fought the Christian crusaders attempting to conquer present-day Syria and Iran. a. zealot b. thug c. crusader d. assassin

Q: The Phineas Priesthood, Montana Freemen, The Order, and the Arizona Patriots, are all examples of extremist groups known as a. Anglo-Israelism b. Christian Identity c. Lost Tribes d. Hittites

Q: A failure to provide for a child's basic needs, an act of omission rather than one of commission, is referred to as a. child neglect b. child abuse c. passive abuse d. benign neglect

Q: The _______________ is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to use violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy a. Ku Klux Klan b. Klavern Klan c. Montana Freemen d. Separatist Klan

Q: Child mistreatment can have tremendous long-lasting physical and psychological implications for children who are victims. This can include "externalizing" problems such as a. chronic shyness b. conduct disorder c. feelings of low self-worth d. all the above