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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What programs administer treatment if the psychopath is judged to be sane but evil?
(a) Correctional facilities.
(b) Mental health facilities.
(c) Universities.
(d) Research hospitals.

4. How well do psychopaths get along with one another?
(a) Comfortably.
(b) They often admire one another.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Well.

5. What phrase did Alice's parents use to describe her behavior as a child?
(a) "She was impulsive."
(b) "She was unpredictable."
(c) "She was mean."
(d) "Something was off."

6. What did John Wayne Gacy say about his career murdering thirty-three people?
(a) "I don't know what came over me."
(b) "It was another person inside of me."
(c) "They all deserved to die."
(d) "I was the victim."

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

8. What is socialization?
(a) Learning to speak the language of those around you.
(b) Learning to live by society's rules.
(c) Learning to network.
(d) Learning to make friends.

9. How many psychopaths are estimated to be in North America?
(a) One hundred thousand.
(b) Two hundred thousand.
(c) Two million.
(d) One million.

10. How do psychopaths tend to view family members?
(a) As a support system.
(b) As competitors.
(c) As enemies.
(d) As possessions, like stereos or automobiles.

11. What did Ted Bundy claim was responsible for his murders?
(a) His mother's early childhood abuse.
(b) His wife.
(c) An alternate personality.
(d) A malignant entity.

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

13. Of what do today's young criminals have less?
(a) Strategic planning.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Education.
(d) Empathy.

14. What do McCord and McCord identify as the distinguishing trait of the psychopath?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Guiltlessness.
(c) Self-pity.
(d) Intense staring.

15. What opened Elyse's eyes to Jeffrey's true character?
(a) He stole from her.
(b) Elyse's parents warned her about him.
(c) The psychiatrist was taken in by Jeffrey's charm.
(d) He had sexual encounters with her roommates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is antisocial personality disorder diagnosed?

2. Upon what two abilities does conscience depend?

3. What prerequisite for love does a psychopath lack?

4. Why were second-degree murder charges against Roxanne Murray dropped?

5. What was incongruous about the red button in the psychologist's office in British Columbia Penitentiary?

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