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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Ethics of Labeling, pg 180-191.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?
(a) They suffer from excessive fear.
(b) They lack the physiological responses normally associated with fear.
(c) They suffer from tumbling insecurity.
(d) They fake good humor.

2. How did Grambling, himself, describe his profession?
(a) Builder of dreams.
(b) Financial architect.
(c) Friend of the little person.
(d) Professional entrepreneur.

3. Why do the victims of white-collar psychopaths often fail to report?
(a) They don't know they were duped.
(b) They didn't lose enough to bother about.
(c) It's humiliating to be duped.
(d) Their own wrongdoing was part of the crime.

4. In how many cases did Dr. Grigson's expert testimony result in the death of defendants?
(a) All of them.
(b) Fifty out of sixty.
(c) Sixty-nine out of seventy.
(d) Fifteen out of thirty.

5. What does the author believe Grigson's approach lacks?
(a) Sufficient allowance for organic brain damage.
(b) Sufficient study of the evidence.
(c) Careful examination and testing.
(d) Sufficient acquaintance with the defendant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the danger in placing psychopaths in mental hospitals instead of prison settings?

2. What is the author's term for "successful" psychopaths?

3. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?

4. What did Dave suggest that his boss do?

5. When does the U.S. Supreme Court say expert testimony, such as Grigson's, is admissible?

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