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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Words from an Overcoat Pocket, pg 124-143.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impression do astute observers sometimes get about psychopaths?
(a) They are not talkative.
(b) They are not easily angered.
(c) They seem to be play-acting.
(d) They are unusually altruistic.

2. How do psychopaths tend to view their own aggression?
(a) As uncontrollable.
(b) As non-existent.
(c) As a natural response to provocation.
(d) As supernatural.

3. What is the typical motivation for a psychopath's act of violence?
(a) Fear.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Jealousy.

4. What percentage of offenders who kill law enforcement officers are psychopathic?
(a) Forty-four.
(b) Ninety-eight.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Sixty-two.

5. What can be observed about the mental processes of psychopaths?
(a) Their mental processes are poorly regulated.
(b) Their mental processes are normal.
(c) Their mental processes are bound by complex rules.
(d) Their mental processes are straightforward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have laboratory experiments using biomedical recorders shown about psychopaths?

2. How do psychopaths know what emotions to display to others?

3. What percentage of serious crimes are committed by psychopaths?

4. What is conscience to a psychopath?

5. Which part of the brain is more analytical and sequential?

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