FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 2 LATEST 2024.2025
COMPLETE QUESTION AND ANSWER GRADED A
What is a sex offender?
legal designation to. group for monitoring, based in sexual crime committed
What is the difference between a child molester and a pedophile?
child molester: any sex crime against child
pedophile: sexual attraction to children 13 and under
situational molesters vs preference molesters?
situational: primarily attracted to adults, considers urges unnatural, likely
regressive pedophiles meaning they regress understand stress
preference: primarily. attracted to children, paraphilia pedophiles (part of concrete
identity), likely personally immature
What are characteristics of sexually aggressive men?
,rapists are insecure, defensive, hostile, distrustful of women
gratification from dominance and control
strong tendency to. misread cues form women
What are the 5 main types of rapists (2 in Sexual) based on motivation (MTC)?
1) opportunistic: impulsive, predatory acts based on situation/context - often
sexually. motivated tends to be one of many antisocial behaviors
2) pervasively angry: diffuse anger that encompasses all parts of life - history of
aggression, likely to cause significant physical injury to victims
3) sexual sadistic: sexual preoccupation, fusion of sexual/aggressive feelings -
arousal due to pain infliction, attacker wants victim to resist
4) sexual non-sadistic: sexual preoccupation, need for dominance, feels inadequate
5) vindictive: misogynistic anger, women = focus - attacks explicitly intended to
cause physical harm, intention to degrade/humiliate
Describe phallometric measurement of sexual deviance (e.g., use of penile
plethysmograph). Why are these needed? Can they discriminate between
offenders and non-offenders? How can stimuli be created to assess child
offenders? What are limitations of phallometric measures?
phallometric measurements are used to determine future risk of sex offenders
PP: used to determine sexual interests. of male. offenders, measures reaction to
sexual stimuli, responseindicayes likely. urges and fantasies
, useful because offenders are likely. to deny inaprop attraction
they are able to discriminate between offenders and non-offenders
limitations: may only develop pattern if admitted deviance and multiple victims,
difficult with adolescent offenders, may. be difficult;t to determine some rapists-
preference for consensual vs non consensual
Stable Dynamic Factors - which factors were identified as important for risk in
sexually aggressive offenders?
sexual drive: deviant preferences//nonconsensual contact
social orientation: antisocial/psychopathy
sexual attitudes: implicit theories of how the world works
which implicit theories were associated with men who were sexual aggressor with
women?
women as sex objects: women are constantly receptive to men's sexual needs but
may not be aware that they are
men must satisfy their sexual needs and have the right to punish women who
refuse sexual contact
women are unknowable: fundamentally diff than men
dangerous world: world is hostile and threatening
male sex drive is uncontrollable: women must provide men with access
COMPLETE QUESTION AND ANSWER GRADED A
What is a sex offender?
legal designation to. group for monitoring, based in sexual crime committed
What is the difference between a child molester and a pedophile?
child molester: any sex crime against child
pedophile: sexual attraction to children 13 and under
situational molesters vs preference molesters?
situational: primarily attracted to adults, considers urges unnatural, likely
regressive pedophiles meaning they regress understand stress
preference: primarily. attracted to children, paraphilia pedophiles (part of concrete
identity), likely personally immature
What are characteristics of sexually aggressive men?
,rapists are insecure, defensive, hostile, distrustful of women
gratification from dominance and control
strong tendency to. misread cues form women
What are the 5 main types of rapists (2 in Sexual) based on motivation (MTC)?
1) opportunistic: impulsive, predatory acts based on situation/context - often
sexually. motivated tends to be one of many antisocial behaviors
2) pervasively angry: diffuse anger that encompasses all parts of life - history of
aggression, likely to cause significant physical injury to victims
3) sexual sadistic: sexual preoccupation, fusion of sexual/aggressive feelings -
arousal due to pain infliction, attacker wants victim to resist
4) sexual non-sadistic: sexual preoccupation, need for dominance, feels inadequate
5) vindictive: misogynistic anger, women = focus - attacks explicitly intended to
cause physical harm, intention to degrade/humiliate
Describe phallometric measurement of sexual deviance (e.g., use of penile
plethysmograph). Why are these needed? Can they discriminate between
offenders and non-offenders? How can stimuli be created to assess child
offenders? What are limitations of phallometric measures?
phallometric measurements are used to determine future risk of sex offenders
PP: used to determine sexual interests. of male. offenders, measures reaction to
sexual stimuli, responseindicayes likely. urges and fantasies
, useful because offenders are likely. to deny inaprop attraction
they are able to discriminate between offenders and non-offenders
limitations: may only develop pattern if admitted deviance and multiple victims,
difficult with adolescent offenders, may. be difficult;t to determine some rapists-
preference for consensual vs non consensual
Stable Dynamic Factors - which factors were identified as important for risk in
sexually aggressive offenders?
sexual drive: deviant preferences//nonconsensual contact
social orientation: antisocial/psychopathy
sexual attitudes: implicit theories of how the world works
which implicit theories were associated with men who were sexual aggressor with
women?
women as sex objects: women are constantly receptive to men's sexual needs but
may not be aware that they are
men must satisfy their sexual needs and have the right to punish women who
refuse sexual contact
women are unknowable: fundamentally diff than men
dangerous world: world is hostile and threatening
male sex drive is uncontrollable: women must provide men with access
