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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do psychopaths tend to view therapists?
2. What does the author see as the antidote to inaccurate diagnoses?
3. What can be observed about the mental processes of psychopaths?
4. Who do psychopaths typically blame when punished for their misconduct?
5. What did one psychopath say made a good liar?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a hypothetical, and why is it dangerous in arriving at a diagnosis of psychopathy?
2. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?
3. What kinds of professions are likely choices for white-collar psychopaths?
4. Why is the option of ignoring the presence of psychopathy in children no longer available?
5. What benefits came from public exposure to the man who claimed to be a Berkeley Ph.D. in psychology and was discovered by a local reporter to have faked his resume when he ran for the school board?
6. What theory does the author feel may possibly explain the self-contradictory nature of psychopathic speech?
7. What characteristics distinguish psychopathic use of non-verbal communication?
8. What is it about the speech of psychopaths that may reveal the condition to an astute observer?
9. What does the Psychopathy checklist provide to clinicians that they are lacking?
10. Why is the typical advice to quit indulging misbehaving youth and get them into therapy considered by the author to be doomed to failure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a descriptive essay detailing the characteristics of an ideal victim for a psychopath to use and manipulate. Would such a person be rich or poor? Single or married? Include as many details as you can, and support them with information from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Imagine that you have a friend whose new romantic interest appears to you to be a psychopath. You know that if you directly make this suggestion to your friend, your friendship will be at an end. Write an essay on the nature of psychopathy that you could show your friend in hopes that s/he would see the similarities between the cases to which you refer and her own situation. Feel free to invent the facts of your friend's situation, remembering that those facts have to demonstrate psychopathy.
Essay Topic 3
Do you feel better prepared as a person for any encounters you may have with psychopathy in your own life after reading this book? In your essay, tell why or why not.
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