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Practice Quiz: Chapter 04
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Practice Quiz: Chapter 04
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Which theory argues that early-onset criminal and violent behaviour develops out of a family environment characterized by problematic parent-child interactions?
a) Age-graded theory of informal social control
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b) Incremental development theory
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c) Control theory
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d) Human agency model of delinquency
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e) Coercion theory
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Why do life-course persistent offenders have difficulty desisting from crime?
a) The benefits of antisocial behaviour outweigh the costs associated with such behaviour.
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b) They continue to receive positive and negative reinforcement from deviant and non-deviant peer groups.
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c) They possess a limited behavioural repertoire.
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d) Their delinquency has gone undetected.
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e) They have not experienced beneficial structural turning points.
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According to coercion theory, a difficult temperament in early childhood can result in problems with internalizing and/or developing subsequent prosocial interpersonal skills at different age levels, creating which of the following?
a) A cumulative disadvantage
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b) Normativity
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c) A time paradox
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d) Reinforcement contingency
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e) A temptation trap
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Which term refers to a process in which adolescent-limited offenders often initially engage in antisocial behaviour by imitating the "bad behaviour" of their delinquent peers to gain social status?
a) Reinforcement contingency
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b) Social mimicry
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c) Structural turning points
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d) Coercive interactions
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e) Human agency
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by which of the following symptoms?
a) Inattention
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b) Vindictiveness
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c) Deceitfulness
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d) Both A and C
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e) All of the above
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Perinatal birth complications refer to which of the following?
a) A pattern of aversive and dynamic parent-child interactions
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b) Significant life events that introduce informal social control to an individual's life
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c) Externalizing childhood disorders
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d) Developmental problems experienced immediately before or after birth
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e) Developmental difficulties experienced prior to birth
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Permissive parenting styles often result in which of the following outcomes in children?
a) High levels of self-control
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b) Poor school performance
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c) Lower levels of self-esteem
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d) Both A and C
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e) All of the above
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Parental monitoring involves which of the following?
a) Setting limits on a child's time and activities
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b) Knowing who a child's friends are
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c) Knowing where a child goes
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d) Knowing how a child spends his/her free time
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e) All of the above
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Active forms of peer or interpersonal rejection would include which of the following?
a) Social ostracism
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b) Name-calling
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c) Bullying
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d) Both B and C
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e) All of the above
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Which term refers to the tendency of delinquent youth to seek out delinquent peers?
a) Peer monitoring
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b) Sociometric status
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c) Homophily
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d) Permissive peer selection
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e) Defiant peer selection strategy
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