Deck 8: Rationality and Emotion

Question 1

According to the text, emotions are typically treated ______________ in criminological theories.

A) positively
B) negatively
C) indifferently
D) all of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Weber, ___________________ rationality is a means-end rationality that is self-serving and assumed to be innate in all people.

A) learned
B) emotional
C) instrumental
D) evolutionary

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following enhanced our distant ancestors' reproductive success by overriding decisions suggesting alternatives to cooperation (i.e., cheating) that may have been more rational in the short term by acquiring resources with little effort, but which were ultimately fitness- reducing?

A) primary emotions
B) rationality
C) social emotions
D) irrationality

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to the text, the less we feel social emotions:

A) the less likely we are to prefer the immediate benefits of cheating
B) the more likely we are to prefer the immediate benefits of cheating
C) the more prosocial we will be
D) the more rational we will be

Question 5

According to the text, psychopaths:

A) are perfectly capable of reasoning
B) have malfunctioning emotional systems
C) are unable to "tie" the brain's cognitive and emotional networks
D) all of the above

Question 6

Which philosopher put forth the notion that emotion precedes rationality in human phylogenic history?

A) Rousseau
B) Hume
C) Kant
D) Plato

Question 7

The primary function of the ________ is the storage of emotional memories.

A) hippocampus
B) amygdala
C) thalamus
D) prefrontal cortex

Question 8

As a basis for social interaction, _______ preceded _______ in evolutionary times.

A) primary emotions, secondary emotions
B) secondary emotions, primary emotions
C) emotions, rationality
D) rationality, emotions

Question 9

Which of the following is/are notoriously absent or extremely weak in chronic criminals, especially psychopaths?

A) shame
B) guilt
C) empathy
D) all of the above

Question 10

Anne Campbell's "staying alive hypothesis" argues that:

A) because offspring survival is so enormously important to reproductive success, females have evolved a propensity to avoid engaging in behaviors that pose survival risks
B) it is maladaptive for females to experience many different situations as fearful
C) the obligatory parental investment of males is greater than that of females
D) all of the above

Question 11

Internal rewards of committing expressive crimes can be powerful motivators.

Question 12

Emotion and rationality are two completely separate and unrelated concepts.

Question 13

Cultural criminologists identify emotions as motivating antisocial behavior.