Domestic Violence (exam 3) UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
statistics - CORRECT ANSWER- -family violence is an epidemic worldwide
-women are greatest targets with approx. 1.5 million cases per year in US
-35% women and 23% men in ER are victims of intimate partner violence
-1/6 women will experience with pregnancy
-family history of violence is a risk factor
-70% eventually leave relationship
types - CORRECT ANSWER- physical
sexual
emotional
psychological
physical abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- is when a person is intentionally injured, assaulted,
threatened with a weapon, or inappropriately retained
-assault, attack, punch, kick, burn
sexual abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- any sexual contact against the person will, including
sexual contact with a person unable to understand the act or communicate consent
-non consensual, rape, force, with a child, with another person
emotional abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- degrading, calling names, putting a person down
psychological abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- mind games, control (over who they can see,
isolated them, control finances)
, financial abuse/exploitation - CORRECT ANSWER- is the unauthorized or improper use of
the person resources for monetary or personal benefit., profit, or gain such as forgery, theft or
improper use of guardianship or power or attorney.
contributing factors - CORRECT ANSWER-
theroies - CORRECT ANSWER- psychoanalytic
biological
social learning
learned helplessness
cycle of violence
psychoanalytic theory - CORRECT ANSWER- is the theory of personality organization and
the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for
treating psychopathology.
-seeks to account for the development and structure of personality, as well as the origin of
abnormal behavior based primarily on inferred inner entities and forces
people who are violent to a significant other are mentally ill. people who are victims must be
mentally ill as well for putting up with it (disproven)
biological theroy - CORRECT ANSWER- believes us to be as a consequence of our genetics
and physiology. It is the only approach in psychology that examines thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors from a biological and thus physical point of view. Therefore, all that is psychological
is first physiological.
instinctive, neurologically related to protect someone (as a mama bear)
social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER- proposes that people learn from one another,
via observation, imitation, and modeling.
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
statistics - CORRECT ANSWER- -family violence is an epidemic worldwide
-women are greatest targets with approx. 1.5 million cases per year in US
-35% women and 23% men in ER are victims of intimate partner violence
-1/6 women will experience with pregnancy
-family history of violence is a risk factor
-70% eventually leave relationship
types - CORRECT ANSWER- physical
sexual
emotional
psychological
physical abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- is when a person is intentionally injured, assaulted,
threatened with a weapon, or inappropriately retained
-assault, attack, punch, kick, burn
sexual abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- any sexual contact against the person will, including
sexual contact with a person unable to understand the act or communicate consent
-non consensual, rape, force, with a child, with another person
emotional abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- degrading, calling names, putting a person down
psychological abuse - CORRECT ANSWER- mind games, control (over who they can see,
isolated them, control finances)
, financial abuse/exploitation - CORRECT ANSWER- is the unauthorized or improper use of
the person resources for monetary or personal benefit., profit, or gain such as forgery, theft or
improper use of guardianship or power or attorney.
contributing factors - CORRECT ANSWER-
theroies - CORRECT ANSWER- psychoanalytic
biological
social learning
learned helplessness
cycle of violence
psychoanalytic theory - CORRECT ANSWER- is the theory of personality organization and
the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for
treating psychopathology.
-seeks to account for the development and structure of personality, as well as the origin of
abnormal behavior based primarily on inferred inner entities and forces
people who are violent to a significant other are mentally ill. people who are victims must be
mentally ill as well for putting up with it (disproven)
biological theroy - CORRECT ANSWER- believes us to be as a consequence of our genetics
and physiology. It is the only approach in psychology that examines thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors from a biological and thus physical point of view. Therefore, all that is psychological
is first physiological.
instinctive, neurologically related to protect someone (as a mama bear)
social learning theory - CORRECT ANSWER- proposes that people learn from one another,
via observation, imitation, and modeling.
