Deck 5: Antisocial Personality Pattern

Question 1

Which of the following personality dimensions from the Five Factor Model share similarities with both Moffitt's and Gottfredson and Hirschi's theories of criminal behavior?

A) neuroticism
B) extraversion
C) openness to experience
D) agreeableness
E)conscientiousness

Answer 1

conscientiousness

Question 2

Today's personality theorist would argue that the prediction of behavior can be enhanced by assessments of

A) cognitive-affective interpretations of situations
B) personality traits
C) the Big Five Factors
D) antisocial personality pattern
E)all of the above

Answer 2

all of the above

Question 3

Tennenbaum (1977) reviewed the personality differences between delinquents and nondelinquents and concluded that no differences existed. This conclusion

A) is accurate
B) is justified because the tests were biased
C)ignores the evidence
D) replicates the earlier findings of Waldo and Dinitz
E) confirms the fact that individual differences are unimportant

Answer 3

ignores the evidence

Question 4

Knowledge destruction

A) results from sniffing glue
B)involves raising suspicion about the validity of data
C) facilitates theory revision
D) is a product of experimental methodology
E) involves systematic observations

Question 5

Reviews of the personality-crime link consistently find this important:

A) neurosis
B) poor self-esteem
C)antisocial personality
D) both a and c
E) none of the above

Question 6

________________ is an objective measure of psychopathy.

A) A clinical interview
B) The Cleckley checklist
C)The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised
D) The DSM-III
E) The LSI-R

Question 7

According to the text, psychopaths are

A) responsive to firm control and punishment
B) untreatable
C) treatable only within therapeutic communities
D) responsive only to medical treatment
E)responsive to RNR-based treatment.

Question 8

An important difference in the diagnosis of antisocial personality as measured by DSM-5, and psychopathy as measured by the PCL-R, is

A)psychopathy includes emotional-interpersonal characteristics
B) the DSM-5 measure is more objective
C) psychopathy is a more general personality diagnosis
D) the PCL-R measure relies solely on criminal history information
E) the DSM-5 diagnosis has now been replaced by a more formal diagnosis of psychopathic personality in ICD-10

Question 9

The authors of the text propose a view of psychopathy as

A) identical to that proposed by Hare
B) a combination of DSM-5 features and narcissistic personality
C)a constellation of risk, need, and responsivity factors
D) nothing more than a psychiatric myth
E) an indicator of a need to take responsivity into treatment planning

Question 10

__________ and __________ are but two characteristics of psychopathy.

A) delusions; empathy
B) antisocial behavior; anxiety
C)manipulativeness; callousness
D) honesty; tattoos
E) guilt; callousness