Deck 15: A General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning Perspective of Criminal Conduct: Summary and Conclusions

Question 1

Understanding individual behavior is gained through

A)theory
B)research
C)practice
D)b and c only
E)all of the above

Answer 1

all of the above

Question 2

According to the text, theories that locate the cause for criminal behavior in the socioeconomic system

A)tend to portray individuals as uninteresting and all the same
B) have played a small role in criminology
C) are promoted by psychologists
D) overemphasize the importance of the person
E) began with Freud

Answer 2

tend to portray individuals as uninteresting and all the same

Question 3

Studies comparing the relationships of social structure (e.g., class) and individual factors (e.g., personality) to criminal behavior show that

A)individual factors are more important
B) social structure is more important
C) both are equally important
D) social structure is more important at the aggregate level
E) social structure is more important with regard to property crimes and individual factors are more important with regard to violent crimes

Answer 3

individual factors are more important

Question 4

Rational empiricism involves

A) logically coherent but untestable constructs
B) the study of individuals instead of social structure
C)systematic observations
D) unethical experimental manipulations
E) extensive theorizing

Question 5

The poor predictive accuracy of clinicians trained in psychopathological models of criminal behavior may be traced to

A)their reliance on the seriousness of the psychiatric disorder
B) a failure of reading The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
C) using the PCL-R for guiding their judgments
D) an emphasis on the "Big Eight" factors
E) depending on indicators of social class for prediction purposes

Question 6

Two major cross-sectional studies (Glueck & Glueck; Hirschi) have identified the following as a major correlate of criminal behavior.

A) social class
B) heredity
C) urban living
D) frustration
E)procriminal attitudes

Question 7

The strongest correlate of delinquency reported by Glueck and Glueck (1950) was

A) social class
B) intelligence
C)delinquent associates
D) body type
E) occupational aspirations

Question 8

The highest rate of criminal behavior can be found when criminal attitudes are

A) high and the person lives in a low-crime area
B) low and the person lives in a prison
C)high and the person's friends are criminals
D) high and self-esteem is low
E) low and the person has very few friends

Question 9

The desistance perspective views a decrease in criminal behavior as a function of

A) critical life events
B) adopting a redemptive narrative
C) acquiring a sense of agency
D) gaining employment and establishing a stable romantic partnership
E)all of the above

Question 10

The Good Lives Model has criticized the RNR model for failing to

A)emphasize criminogenic needs
B)recognize the importance of personal strengths
C)place fundamental human needs as the major goal in treatment
D)both b and c
E)all of the above