CRIM 103 - PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What are the 2 offender groups described in Moffitt's developmental theory? - Answers -
Life-course offender and adolescent limited offender
Who is the founder of "8-stages" of psychological development theory? - Answers - Erik
Erikson
What does a developmental psychologist do? - Answers - study how people change
across the lifespan
No risk factor in itself is determinative - Answers - True
Abnormal psychology is the study of the human body - Answers - False
If a parent is not regulating a child's behaviour, what type of parenting style is that? -
Answers - permissive
What is not a common characteristic of parents of sex offenders? - Answers - higher
education
What are common social environmental risk factors? - Answers - poverty, academic
failure, peer rejection, preschool experiences
Theory that argues parental monitoring influences academic success and engagement -
Answers - Patterson's coercion theory
What are the 3 types of somatotypes? - Answers - ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph
Who developed somatotyping? - Answers - Sheldon
What were the results of the study, "Beauty and the Juror" (Patry, 2008)? - Answers -
Individual verdicts found attractive people to be less guilty than plain people
Dizygotic twins - Answers - share 50% of their genes, usually have the same childhood
environment, just as related as non-twin siblings, developed from 2 different eggs
fertilized at the same time
What were the findings of the Byrd and Manuck 2014 MAOA gene study? - Answers -
Those with the low activity form of the MAOA gene paired with severe childhood
maltreatment more strongly predicts antisocial behaviour in males
Concordance (when studying twins) - Answers - Degree to which pairs of subjects both
show a particular behaviour or condition
, Personality characteristic linked with endomorph body type - Answers - peaceful and
sociable
Based on Sheldon's somatotypes, who is most likely to commit crimes? - Answers -
Someone tall and strong, likes bungee jumping and fast cars
What do minor physical anomalies indicate? - Answers - potential neurological
problems, might cause developmental problems within life leading to criminal behaviour
3 temperament styles - Answers - the easy child, the difficult child, the slow to warm up
child
What was concluded in Lombroso's study? - Answers - criminality could be identified
with physical characteristics
What identified the relationship between Minor Physical Anomalies (MPAs) and criminal
behaviour? - Answers - MPAs indicated developmental problems as a fetus. Those
often indicate other neurological issues that when coupled with a poor home
environment may lead to criminal behaviour
Lead, cadmium and mercury negatively effect or damage neurotransmitters - Answers -
True
Excessive exposure to cadmium may lead to displays of aggression and violence -
Answers - true
Evidence of exposure to lead is more common in those of low socioeconomic status -
Answers - true
In Bartol and Bartol (2008) "Physique and Crime", the authors concluded that - Answers
- Some individuals may use their attractiveness to commit crimes
Adoptees with criminal biological mothers are at a higher risk of committing crime -
Answers - True
Youth diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are linked to a high rate of
intermittent explosive disorder - Answers - False
The autonomic nervous system regulated breathing, blood pressure, digestion, heart
rate - Answers - True
Contaminated fish is a common source of toxic mercury - Answers - True
MAOA is more commonly known as? - Answers - Warrior gene
What are the 2 offender groups described in Moffitt's developmental theory? - Answers -
Life-course offender and adolescent limited offender
Who is the founder of "8-stages" of psychological development theory? - Answers - Erik
Erikson
What does a developmental psychologist do? - Answers - study how people change
across the lifespan
No risk factor in itself is determinative - Answers - True
Abnormal psychology is the study of the human body - Answers - False
If a parent is not regulating a child's behaviour, what type of parenting style is that? -
Answers - permissive
What is not a common characteristic of parents of sex offenders? - Answers - higher
education
What are common social environmental risk factors? - Answers - poverty, academic
failure, peer rejection, preschool experiences
Theory that argues parental monitoring influences academic success and engagement -
Answers - Patterson's coercion theory
What are the 3 types of somatotypes? - Answers - ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph
Who developed somatotyping? - Answers - Sheldon
What were the results of the study, "Beauty and the Juror" (Patry, 2008)? - Answers -
Individual verdicts found attractive people to be less guilty than plain people
Dizygotic twins - Answers - share 50% of their genes, usually have the same childhood
environment, just as related as non-twin siblings, developed from 2 different eggs
fertilized at the same time
What were the findings of the Byrd and Manuck 2014 MAOA gene study? - Answers -
Those with the low activity form of the MAOA gene paired with severe childhood
maltreatment more strongly predicts antisocial behaviour in males
Concordance (when studying twins) - Answers - Degree to which pairs of subjects both
show a particular behaviour or condition
, Personality characteristic linked with endomorph body type - Answers - peaceful and
sociable
Based on Sheldon's somatotypes, who is most likely to commit crimes? - Answers -
Someone tall and strong, likes bungee jumping and fast cars
What do minor physical anomalies indicate? - Answers - potential neurological
problems, might cause developmental problems within life leading to criminal behaviour
3 temperament styles - Answers - the easy child, the difficult child, the slow to warm up
child
What was concluded in Lombroso's study? - Answers - criminality could be identified
with physical characteristics
What identified the relationship between Minor Physical Anomalies (MPAs) and criminal
behaviour? - Answers - MPAs indicated developmental problems as a fetus. Those
often indicate other neurological issues that when coupled with a poor home
environment may lead to criminal behaviour
Lead, cadmium and mercury negatively effect or damage neurotransmitters - Answers -
True
Excessive exposure to cadmium may lead to displays of aggression and violence -
Answers - true
Evidence of exposure to lead is more common in those of low socioeconomic status -
Answers - true
In Bartol and Bartol (2008) "Physique and Crime", the authors concluded that - Answers
- Some individuals may use their attractiveness to commit crimes
Adoptees with criminal biological mothers are at a higher risk of committing crime -
Answers - True
Youth diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are linked to a high rate of
intermittent explosive disorder - Answers - False
The autonomic nervous system regulated breathing, blood pressure, digestion, heart
rate - Answers - True
Contaminated fish is a common source of toxic mercury - Answers - True
MAOA is more commonly known as? - Answers - Warrior gene
