Forensic Psychology

Question 0

The term dangerousness refers to:

Answer 0

The likelihood of a person committing a serious act of violence with little provocation.

Question 1

Forensic psychologists do not work in which place?

Answer 1

School

Question 2

What is the best example of a rejected stalker?

Answer 2

Partha, who started stalking his victim after she dumped him.

Question 3

Signature behaviours can be best described as:

Answer 3

Acts committed by the offender not necessary to complete the offence, but the offender must do something to satisfy themselves.

Question 4

What is the minimum age for criminal responsibly in Australia ?

Answer 4

10 years

Question 5

A psychopath can be defined as:

Answer 5

Someone who lacks the ability to feel emotions and has no conscience, they do not feel regret or guilt about any socially inappropriate or illegal behaviours.

Question 6

Men’s rea means:

Answer 6

The offenders mental intention to commit the criminal act.

Question 7

In order for new information to be stored in the memory, it goes through 3 stages. These are:

Answer 7

Encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 8

According the the theory of violence distraction:

Answer 8

An eyewitnesses ability to recall what they have witnessed decreases the more violent the crime.

Question 9

What is not used to improve eyewitness testimony?

Answer 9

Violence distraction

Question 10

The use of facial composite computer software involves:

Answer 10

Using computer software to recreate an image of an offenders face using eyewitness descriptions.

Question 11

List 3 possible roles of a forensic psychologist-

Answer 11

• Assembly a defendants fitness to stand trial.
• giving a victim advice to deal with stalking.
• Work in eyewitness memory.

Question 12

Define the term stalking:

Answer 12

Stalking is a term used to describe a person’s persistent (continuous) attempts to force unwanted communications or contact on another person that cause the victim fear or distress.

Question 13

List five steps in the BEA method of criminal profiling:

Answer 13

Analyse the forensic evidence.
Analyse the victims characteristics 
Analyse the crime scene characteristics
Develop a criminal profile
The apprehension

Question 14

Explain the difference between a ‘serial murderer’ and a ‘mass murderer’.

Answer 14

A serial murderer kills a person and then goes off into hiding for an emotional cooling off period before killing again while a mass murderer kills a minimum of four or more people in the one location in the one emotional burst.

Question 15

Define expert witness:

Answer 15

export witness is someone who has specialised knowledge, skills or experience in the information they present before a court.

Question 16

If an offender is predicted not to reoffend but they do, this is called?

Answer 16

False negative

Question 17

If an offender is predicted to re-offend but they do not, this is called?

Answer 17

False positive

Question 18

What is the psychotic disorder mostly commonly associated with violence? List 2 behaviours that a person with disorder would display.

Answer 18

Psychopathy: behaviours are that they will be easily provoked and that they will show no repeat or guilt in their unsocial actions, and won’t be fully aware of any illegal activity activity they performed.

Question 19

What is cause of most wrongful convictions?

Answer 19

The cause of most wrongful convicts is a mis-identification of the suspect, a face composite would have to look extremely accurate to an innocent member of the public and they would be wrongfully convicted.

Question 20

How does weapon focus decrease a witness’s ability to give accurate testimony?

Answer 20

Weapon focus decreases a witness’s ability to give accurate testimony as during a crime, the attention of the defendant is drawn to the weapon they are using instead of analysing the offenders facial features.

Question 21

How could using a retrieval cue assist a witness’s ability to give accurate testimony?

Answer 21

a forensic psychologist would mention a context of the time of the incident and go through the steps of what happened to trigger the eyewitness’s memory of the incident and give an accurate description.

Question 22

Incompetent stalker associated behaviour:

Answer 22

One who doesn’t have the social skills to have a close relationship with someone and so they stalk them by ‘accidentally’ running into their victim at different locations.

Question 23

Predatory stalker associated behaviours:

Answer 23

One who stalks to seek sexual gratification from someone, they stealthily stalk their victim and keep contact through anonymous calls and letters.