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Forensic Psychology Exam 1 Questions and Answers 2023 Wild Beast Test A test used historically to determine whether a person is insane. They couldn't be accountable for their offenses because they were "beast-like" and they lacked capacity for reasoning. Benjamin Cardozo Later became a Supreme Court justice. He wrote "for example, if a person has an insane delusion that God has appeared and convinced them to complete a crime, we think it cannot said of the defendant that he knows t...

STATISTICAL INFREQUENCY - ANSWER abnormality is defined as those behaviours that are extremely rare, i.e. any behaviour that is found in very few people is regarded as abnormal. e.g. IQ - statistically unusual if below 70. diagnosed w/ intellectual disability disorder DEVIATION FROM SOCIAL NORMS - ANSWER behaviour that is different from the accepted standards of behaviour in a community or society abnormality based on social context example: antisocial personality disorder (formerly ...

STATISTICAL INFREQUENCY abnormality is defined as those behaviours that are extremely rare, i.e. any behaviour that is found in very few people is regarded as abnormal. e.g. IQ - statistically unusual if below 70. diagnosed w/ intellectual disability disorder DEVIATION FROM SOCIAL NORMS behaviour that is different from the accepted standards of behaviour in a community or society abnormality based on social context example: antisocial personality disorder (formerly psychopathy) - fai...

personality disorder an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture -this pattern is manifested in two or more of the following areas: --cognition (ways of perceiving self/others) --affectivity (emotional responses) --interpersonal functioning --impulse control psychopathy antisocial personality construct impairments to ways you view and interact with the world can't be diagnosed until after 18 ...

Chapter 03 Explaining Crime     
Multiple Choice Questions
  1. Which of the following is a product of the Enlightenment period, or the Age of Reason, a period of history that began in the early 1500s and lasted until the late 1700s? 
A. classical theory
B. biological positivism
C. positivist theory
D. neoclassical theory   
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
Level: Basic
Topic: Classical
Topic: Neoclassical Approaches to Explaining Crime
  2. Several modific...

The Analysis of Psychopaths and Their Behavior

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DEVELOPED INFORMATION SKILLS An assignment requires that you write an academic essay. Using the list 1-5 bellow, identify one correct answer that demonstrate the sequence for the general format for an academic essay.  INTRODUCTION  DEFINITIONS  HEADINGS AND SUBHEADING  CONCLUSION  LIST OF SOURCES  Which word or concept in the following topic gives you instructions as to what to do in the task? “In an essay of 1200 words, explain why South Africa needs more social w...

STATISTICAL INFREQUENCY Abnormality is defined as those behaviors that are extremely rare, i.e. any behavior that is found in very few people is regarded as abnormal. E.g. IQ - statistically unusual if below 70. Diagnosed w/ intellectual disability disorder DEVIATION FROM SOCIAL NORMS Behavior that is different from the accepted standards of behavior in a community or society Abnormality based on social context Example: antisocial personality disorder (formerly psychopathy) - fai...

STATISTICAL INFREQUENCY - ANSWER abnormality is defined as those behaviours that are extremely rare, i.e. any behaviour that is found in very few people is regarded as abnormal. e.g. IQ - statistically unusual if below 70. diagnosed w/ intellectual disability disorder DEVIATION FROM SOCIAL NORMS - ANSWER behaviour that is different from the accepted standards of behaviour in a community or society abnormality based on social context example: antisocial personality disorder (formerly ...