Secure Institutional treatment of juveniles who have committed serious offenses is known as __ intervention.
restrictive

Steinberg’s dual systems model of risk-taking is based on evidence from the field of…
neuroscience

A program designed to prevent delinquent behavior before any signs of the behavioral pattern emerge is called
universal prevention

Which of the following statements is not correct?
The number of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that have been tried with delinquents and children at risk over the past three decades is overwhelming.
Serious forms of antisocial behavior in school-aged children and adolescents have been particularly resistant to change.
To date, virtually no prevention programs have been highly successful in eliminating antisocial behavior and reducing delinquent behavior.
One-on-one psychotherapy that treats the juvenile without involving the social environment is generally ineffective.
To date, virtually no prevention programs have been highly successful in eliminating antisocial behavior and reducing delinquent behavior.

To date, virtually no prevention programs have been highly successful in eliminating antisocial behavior and reducing delinquent behavior.
conduct disorder and antisocial behavior.

According to Loeber et al. (2003), child delinquents __ compared to adolescents who begin offending in the their teens.
are two to three times more likely to become serious violent and chronic offenders.

Which statement is most accurate about juvenile crime?
Juvenile crime has generally decreased since the mid 1990s.
The juvenile crime rate has been steadily increasing since 1990.
Compared to adults, juveniles are responsible for disproportionately higher number of violent crimes.
Juveniles are more likely to be perpetrators rather than victims of violent crime.
Juvenile crime has generally decreased since the mid 1990s.

Poor interpersonal skills, conduct disorders, and difficult temperaments are often found in the background of __ offenders.
LCP

How many states tried as adults in criminal courts under certain conditions and for certain offenses?
Fifty

The stage of development described in Moffitt’s 2002 follow-up study in which young people flounder, choosing not to occupy traditional adult roles such as marriage or parenthood is called
emerging adulthood.

Most of the crime of the young is committed by
AL offenders

T or F – Bullying is an example of reactive aggression
FALSE

T or F – Children with a hostile attribution bias are less likely than average children to see aggressive actions from others where there are none.
FALSE

T or F – The copycat effect is similar to social learning.
TRUE

T or F – Research studies have found that viewing violence and playing violent video games have the same detrimental effects on adults.
FALSE

During early stages of frustration or general arousal, cognitive processes appear to have little influence beyond the immediate appraisal that the situation is aversive. This description outlines a stage of what model of aggression and violence?
The Cognitive neoassociation model

What do Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Jonesboro, Arkansas have in common?
They are all locations of school-shooter copycats.

If you were a TV producer and wanted an argument to support your position of the value of violence on television, you would probably rely on which of the following Theoretical Positions?
Psychoanalytic

Do surveys estimate that the average American child sees approximately how many more than violent episodes on television before reaching adolescence?
100,000

In hostile aggression, the perpetrator’s primary goal is to
make the victim suffer.

Which of the following statements is true of the GAM?
It is based on “Stand your Ground” laws/
It draws heavily on social-cognitive and social learning theories the reinforcement gained as a result of the behavior.
It posits that violence occurs solely because of basic cognitive processes.
It was developed from research on road rage.
It draws heavily on social-cognitive and social learning theories the reinforcement gained as a result of the behavior.

Instigating triggers, impelling forces, and inhibiting forces are the three categories of…
13 THEORY

Which statement most accurately reflects research findings on gender differences in aggression?
Boys are more overtly aggressive than girls during the pre-school years, then aggression rapidly decreases.
Gender differences in aggression are primarily due to biology.
Gender differences are due to cultural and socialization processes that promote different kinds of aggression.
Girls are more aggressive than boys during the pre-school years only.
Gender differences are due to cultural and socialization processes that promote different kinds of aggression.

T or F – Secondary psychopaths are more likely to be found in a maximum security prison.
False

T or F – Current research on gender differences of psychopaths suggests that women far outnumber men.
False

T or F – The core behavioral dimension that reflects the interpersonal and emotional components, such as callousness and manipulation of others, is referred to as psychopathic factor I.
True

T or F – Hemisphere asymmetry refers to the observation that most psychopaths have superior language ability.
False

T or F – Psychopathy Screening Device or the PSD is one of the measures specifically designed to identify youths with psychopathic characteristics.
True

The behavior of the psychopath appears to be primarily an attempt to…
obtain adequate stimulation.

All of the following are characteristic of the psychopath except…
superficial harm.
extreme self-centeredness.
worry and anxiety about the future.
irresponsibility.
worry and anxiety about the future.

According to Cleckley, which absolute unchanging characteristic is always present in the psychopath?
Egocentricity

Quay has said that psychopaths “know the words but not the music” in reference to their lack of real emotion. This is also known as
Semantic Aphasia

Which of the following statements about juvenile psychopathy is correct?
There are no instruments available for measuring juvenile psychopathy.
Juvenile psychopathy as a construct clearly does not exist.
Some researchers are concerned about the negative implications of labeling juveniles as psychopaths.
Juvenile psychopaths display behavior identical to that of adult psychopaths.
Juvenile psychopathy is correlated with sexual aggression.
Some researchers are concerned about the negative implications of labeling juveniles as psychopaths.

Currently, Hare’s PCL-R is the best measure available of identifying criminal psychopaths. According to Hare, what score must a person receive on this scale to be considered a criminal psychopath?
30

According to Robert Hare, antisocial individuals who display aggressive behavior learned from their subculture are __ psychopaths.
dissocial

what causes an avoidant attachment
parents who are aloof, distant and avoid intimacy w their child

what causes an anxious/ambivalent attachment
parents are overbearing and inconsistent in affection and intimacy

An emotional response characterized by feelings of concern for another and a desire to alleviate that persons distress and experience their emotion
Affective empathy

The ability to understand a person from his/her frame of reference or point of view rather than from their own point of view and understand their emotion
Cognitive empathy

Deficiencies in empathy have been considered characteristic of (2)
Persistently aggressive and antisocial individuals

What act is associated with lack of empathy
Animal abuse

What is one of the strongest predictors if serious violent criminal behavior
Animal cruelty

Why is language impairments expected to be associated with criminal behavior
Because these children were most likely to be rejected by their peers and have built up frustration from not being able to express themselves and they may attempt to express themselves through violence

What is the psychometric approach
Searches for unique differences in persons through psychological tests

3 traits of ADHD
Inattention
Impulsivity
Excessive motor activity