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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Ethics of Labeling, pg 180-191.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of serious crimes are committed by psychopaths?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Sixty.

2. What is the two-pronged question clinicians face in dealing with psychopathic children?
(a) How are we to protect both ourselves and their civil rights?
(b) How are we to teach them right from wrong?
(c) How are we to instill a missing conscience?
(d) How are we to treat them and prevent recidivism?

3. What is the author's term for "successful" psychopaths?
(a) Useful.
(b) Socialized.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Subcriminal.

4. How do law enforcement officials make use of psychopaths' lack of loyalty?
(a) They will turn in their friends.
(b) They can be "turned" to help the state.
(c) They will work as double agents.
(d) They will make mistakes.

5. What term is often inappropriately applied to psychopaths?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Paranoid.
(c) Schizophrenic.
(d) Psychotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is oppositional defiant disorder?

2. When is the best period for changing the behavior or psychopaths?

3. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?

4. How did a psychopathic thief believe that his victims were better off?

5. How is psychological denial a disadvantage?

(see the answer key)

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