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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Focusing the Picture, pg 21-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Philippe Pinel call psychopathy?
(a) Remorselessness.
(b) Diabolical evil.
(c) Insanity without delirium.
(d) Moral insanity.

4. How did Kenneth Bianchi convince some clinicians that he was not one of the Hillside Stranglers?
(a) He claimed multiple personalities.
(b) He turned in his friend Steve.
(c) He proved it was his cousin, Angelo Buono.
(d) He demonstrated a firm alibi.

5. What do clinicians who prefer the term "sociopath" believe?
(a) Psychopathy is caused by life experiences.
(b) Society is responsible for creating psychopaths.
(c) Psychopathy is inborn.
(d) Psychopathy is a mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ray trap the author by showing him a knife?

2. What was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?

3. What did Ted Bundy claim was responsible for his murders?

4. What prerequisite for love does a psychopath lack?

5. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be crazy?

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