Criminal and Forensic Psychology 1.

Which of the following best describes a crime?

• an act that harms another person

• an act that upsets another person

• an act that breaks the law

• an act that disrupts social order

Justice can be defined as the principle of:

• order and truth brought to bear in the process of evaluating human behaviour and interaction

• empathy and evidence brought to bear in the process of evaluating human behaviour and interaction

• balance and fairness brought to bear in the process of evaluating human behaviour and interaction

• normative evaluations brought to bear in the process of evaluating human behaviour and interaction

aggression and violence has been associate with _______ amygdala function and _______ amygdala size

• Lower, smaller

• Lower, larger

• Higher, smaller

• Higher, larger

Along with the amygdala, low functioning in which brain area has been associated with criminal offending?

• corpus callosum

• pre-central gyrus

• somato-sensory cortex

• anterior cingulate cortex

what has been the outcome for children with low amygdala functioning, after participation in intervention programs with targeted children focusing on nutrition, exercise and cognitive skills?

• the brain functioning had improved and their was a reduction in criminal activity

• intervention had no effect

• they learned to change behaviour despite still having low brain functioning

• the brain functioning improved but there was still high criminal behaviour

Low heart rate has been associated with:

• stimulus seeking and increased fear response

• stimulus seeking and lowered fear response

• familiarity seeking and increased fear response

• familiarity seeking and lowered fear response

Low heart rate is not yet able to be called a definitive biomarker for antisocial behaviour because:

• there are too many other psychological disorders that have association with low heart rate

• the correlation of low heart rate with antisocial behaviour is too small to be generalised to the population

• we don't know definitively how it can be used to predict antisocial behaviour

• there is no provision within the law to currently allow heart rate to be used diagnostically

learning theory would suggest that feelings of guilt that stop a law abiding person from committing a crime has been learned through:

• Modelling

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Social learning

Operant conditioning would suggest that a criminal commits crimes because:

• they saw their peers rewarded for the behaviour

• someone they look up to is a criminal

• they were born with a small amygdala

• they have been rewarded for criminal behaviour in the past