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Psychology 6084 MCQs [All-Courses]

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Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior, mental processes, emotions, and personality. It is an important subject for competitive exams such as PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, CSS, and PMS.

Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:
A Antisocial behavior
B History of mental illness
C Family criminality
D A and C
Correct Answer: A and C
Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?
A Anger management
B Encoding social cues
C Deception
D Memory retrieval
Correct Answer: Encoding social cues
The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:
A Cognitive interviews
B Offender profiling
C Being community- based
D Focus on relationship with parents
Correct Answer: Being community- based
Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?
A Aggression replacement training
B What Works program
C Statement validity assessment
D The Cambridge study
Correct Answer: The Cambridge study
As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?
A Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
B The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
C The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
D The most effective programs have low treatment integrity
Correct Answer: The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
Crime is a____product.
A legislative
B individual
C criminal
D social
Correct Answer: social
Moral panic is:
A an overreaction against an event, such as a type of crime, which is seen as a threat to society’s values
B the view that the world is full of crime and violence
C a concept applied to mugging
D a study of youth crime in Britain
Correct Answer: an overreaction against an event, such as a type of crime, which is seen as a threat to society’s values
In the British Crime survey, who had high levels of worry about burglary and violent crime?
A Professionals
B Women
C Men
D Those over 75 years- of age
Correct Answer: Women
What is the fear- victimization paradox?
A Those who fear crime the most tend to become the victims of crime
B There is little, or no relationship between and individual’s risk of victimization and their level of fear of crime
C It simply refers to the fear of being a victim of crime
D It refers to the group of people who are least bothered by the risk of being “victimized
Correct Answer: There is little, or no relationship between and individual’s risk of victimization and their level of fear of crime
Our levels of fear may be influenced by:
A personal experience
B crime news
C aspects of our personality which make us more, or less, afraid of crime
D all of the options above
Correct Answer: all of the options above