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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Profile: Feelings and Relationships , pg 33-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say is the hallmark of a psychopath?
(a) A stunning lack of conscience.
(b) Mental anguish.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Delusions.

3. What form of mental illness has about the same prevalence in North America as psychopathy?
(a) Oppositional-Defiant disorder.
(b) Bipolar syndrome.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Paranoia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?

2. What was Ted Bundy's opinion of guilt?

3. What question first raised by Ray has stayed with the doctor throughout his career?

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

5. What is the difficulty in using empathy, egocentricity, or guilt as determinants in a diagnosis?

(see the answer key)

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