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Multiple choice questions: Chapter 13
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Multiple choice questions: Chapter 13
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Who among the Positivist Cardiologists proposed the idea of a 'born criminal'?
Enrico Ferry
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Raphael Garofalo
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Charles Goring
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Cesare Lombroso
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What is an 'atavistic throwback'?
People whose brain development has been interfered with.
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People with psychotic personalities
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People whose genetic makeup was from a more primitive stage of human development.
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People whose learning has been impeded.
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In Sheldon's 1949 somatotyping, which of these descriptions best encapsulates an 'endomorph'?
Physically soft and round, often fat and have friendly and sociable temperaments;
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Physically muscular and athletic and have assertive and active temperaments;
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Physically thin and rather weak and temperamentally focused on privacy and restraint and are very self-aware.
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Who wrote the famous book 'The Delinquent Man' in 1889?
Cesare Lombroso
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Raphael Garofalo
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Charles Goring
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Enrico Ferry
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Damage to which part of the brain is most likely to result in an impaired ability to understand the consequences of actions or impaired ability to learn from previous experience?
Temporal and Occipital lobes
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Brain stem
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Frontal and pre-frontal lobes
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Parietal lobe
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Which of the following might be studied to investigate the influence of genetics on human behaviour?
Monozygotic and dizygotic twins
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Personality traits
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Learning theories
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Brain scans
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Biological factors are:
Directly causative of all violent crime
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One factor in a range of factors affecting behaviour
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Never related to criminal behaviour
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Interesting to students but never of any use in understanding behaviour
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If, when a person has an unacceptable thought, motive or feeling, they attribute it to someone else, then Freud would refer to that as:
Repression
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Projection
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Regression
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Displacement
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Which theory suggests that people learn through interactions with other people and that real learning arises out of copying or mimicking the behaviour of others?
Operant learning
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Cognitive learning
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Social learning
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Classical learning
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What type of theory studies the genetic changes which might result from environment or upbringing?
Epigenetic
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Genetic
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Somatotyping
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Biochemical
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