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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Lifestyles, pg 57-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is antisocial personality disorder diagnosed?
(a) Rigorous personality testing.
(b) Antisocial and criminal behaviors.
(c) Reports of family and acquaintances.
(d) Emotional triggers.

3. What does Hervey Cleckley say the psychopath is incapable of understanding?
(a) Other people's behavior.
(b) Personal values.
(c) Society's rules.
(d) Mental illness.

4. How do psychopaths tend to feel about the future?
(a) They live in an imagined future.
(b) They plan constantly.
(c) They look forward to better days.
(d) They give it little thought.

5. Why are psychopathic killers sometimes judged sane?
(a) They are not deranged.
(b) They are unusually intelligent.
(c) They suffer from mental illness.
(d) They fool the authorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Helen and Steve ask themselves about their daughter Alice?

2. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

3. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?

4. How did Clifford Olson become rich?

5. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?

(see the answer key)

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