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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. 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 is oppositional defiant disorder?
(a) Confused behavior.
(b) Restless, inattentive behavior.
(c) Negative, defiant behavior.
(d) Self-contradictory behavior.

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

4. How does Ronald Markman account for the public fascination with remorseless psychopaths?
(a) We envy them.
(b) We admire them.
(c) We have something of them in us and we want to know what it is.
(d) We feel sorry for them.

5. How do the criminal activities of psychopaths compare with those of other criminals?
(a) Psychopaths' crimes are more specialized.
(b) Psychopaths' crimes are more violent.
(c) Psychopaths' crimes are harder to detect.
(d) Psychopaths' crimes are more varied and frequent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author decline to diagnose Saddam Hussein?

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

3. Why are most studies of psychopathy done in prisons?

4. What is the "cycle of violence"?

5. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?

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