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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Which of the following not a likely activity of : 1256143
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Which of the following is not a likely activity of a clinical forensic psychologist?
a.studying the effects of lighting conditions on eyewitness recall
b.evaluating the parents of a troubled teen for custody and access recommendations
c.delivering treatment programs to high risk sex offenders
d.assessing juvenile delinquents in detention centres for behavioural problems
e.practising relaxation techniques with police officers on leave due to burnout
2.What is the main difference between a clinical forensic psychologist and a forensic psychiatrist?
a.Forensic psychiatrists cannot provide expert testimony in court.
b.Clinical forensic psychologists can prescribe medication.
c.Forensic psychiatrists aren’t concerned with mental health issues.
d.Clinical forensic psychologists rely more on a medical model of mental illness.
e.Forensic psychiatrists are medical doctors.
3.Which task is likely to be performed by an experimental forensic psychologist?
a.examining the effects of judges’ instructions on jury verdicts
b.providing expert testimony
c.examining the effects of correctional programs on reoffending rates
d.studying the effects of police stress on job satisfaction
e.all of the above
4.Which of the following is an example of “psychology in the law”?
a.a psychologist providing expert testimony in court on the accuracy of eyewitness identification
b.examining how we can improve the assessment of fitness to stand trial
c.validating a tool for predicting risk of violence
d.a researcher examining factors that affect police decision making in a lab setting
e.studying the impact of a new interrogation technique to see if it decreases the likelihood that people will make false confessions
5.Judges currently use findings from psychological research to decide whether a witness on the stand is lying or not. This is a good example of:
a.psychology and the law
b.psychology in the law
c.informational influence
d.Normalization
e.psychology of the law
6.Alfred Binet conducted a series of studies to examine how question style influenced the accuracy of child eyewitnesses. He found that:
a. moderately leading questions result in the most accurate answers
b.free recall results in the most accurate answers
c. highly leading questions result in the most accurate answers
d. free recall results in the least accurate answers
e. eyewitness accuracy did not vary across question type
7.A researcher arranges for a confederate to enter his classroom, steal his wallet, and run out. The researcher then asks the students to provide a description of the “offender” in an effort to study eyewitness recall. This is an example of:
a.a verifiable experiment
b.a virtual experiment
c.a reality experiment
d.a misinformation test
e.a subjective recall test
8.Stern’s 1901 “reality experiment” involved a bogus quarrel between two students in which a gun was involved. Stern concluded that:
a.racial discrimination is common
b.pre-trial media has a strong influence on eyewitness accuracy
c.retroactive memory-falsification tends to occur
d.emotional arousal influences accuracy of recall
e.none of the above
9.Place the following events in chronological order:
1–Cattell conducts some of the first experiments in North America on the psychology of testimony
2–APA recognizes forensic psychology as a speciality discipline
3–Hugo Munsterberg publishes On the Witness Stand
4–The U.S. Supreme courts lays out the Daubert criteria for determining when scientific evidence should be admitted in court
a.4, 2, 3, 1
b.3, 4, 2, 1
c.4, 3, 2, 1
d.1, 2, 3, 4
e.1, 3, 4, 2
10.The following psychologist was the first to propose a testable theory of criminal behaviour:
a.Bandura
b.Freud
c.Munsterberg
d.Eysenck
e.Marston
