Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Robert Hare (psychologist)
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Robert Hare (psychologist)
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Internal Controls: The Missing Peice, pg 71-82.

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. How does the author feel about films that allow identification with psychopaths?
(a) They are helpful diagnostic tools.
(b) They are silly and have no connection with reality.
(c) They are powerful role models for people with problems.
(d) They are cathartic, releasing our interest in evil without doing harm.

3. What was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?
(a) You could push it, but it indicated weakness on your part.
(b) It was designed to simulate a real call button.
(c) You could push it in an emergency but not expect help.
(d) You could push it in an emergency, but it did not work.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How exactly does psychopathy correspond with troubled childhood?

2. How did Ted Bundy trick his victims into accompanying him when he was a stranger to them?

3. How well do psychopaths get along with one another?

4. What does the author advise readers not to do with his book?

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

(see the answer key)

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