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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 was the first thing the author noticed about Ray when he met him?
(a) Ray's intense stare.
(b) Ray's ease when lying.
(c) Ray's evil aura.
(d) Ray's relaxed conversation.

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

3. What is the difficulty in using empathy, egocentricity, or guilt as determinants in a diagnosis?
(a) Participants can lie in reporting.
(b) Clinicians are often prejudiced in favor of their clients.
(c) The average clincian can't reliably assess those traits.
(d) Everyone tested comes out at about the same level.

4. What question did Joe McGinniss wrestle with during his relationship with Jeffrey MacDonald?
(a) How could I have liked him?
(b) How could I have missed all the signs?
(c) How could I have misunderstood him?
(d) How could I have understood him?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are psychopaths unlike psychotics?

2. What do obligations and commitments mean to psychopaths?

3. What psychopath does the author claim commanded a nation?

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

5. What was the verdict in the case of Edward Gein?

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