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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. When is the best period for changing the behavior or psychopaths?
2. What reaction from professionals often frustrates spouses of psychopaths?
3. What does successful therapy require of a patient?
4. Which part of the brain is more emotional and processes events simultaneously?
5. What does the author see as the antidote to inaccurate diagnoses?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are the victims of psychopaths so reluctant to believe evidence of their wrongdoing?
2. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?
3. What characteristics distinguish psychopathic use of non-verbal communication?
4. What attitude do white-collar psychopaths take toward their victims?
5. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?
6. Why is the typical advice to quit indulging misbehaving youth and get them into therapy considered by the author to be doomed to failure?
7. What is the danger of inaccurate diagnosis of psychopathy?
8. Why is it important to identify psychopathy in childhood?
9. Why are nurturing, kind-hearted women ideal victims for psychopaths?
10. What kinds of professions are likely choices for white-collar psychopaths?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An Australian judge put a psychopathic killer into a mental institution rather than a prison on the grounds that "anyone would have to be crazy to behave in that fashion." In your essay, support or refute the argument that psychopaths are obviously mentally ill. Use information from the text to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the difficulty with each of the diagnostic methods for identifying psychopathy.
Essay Topic 3
Clearly, the author has an interest in promoting his Psychopathy checklist for use by mental health professionals and clinicians. But this book was not written for the scientific audience. Write an essay explaining what purpose you think the author had in presenting the results of his research to the lay public. Back up your thesis with information from the text.
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