lec 9 forensic psych

Question 1

Actus reus

Question 2

Personality inventories

Question 3

Competency

Question 4

Premeditation

Question 5

Crime scene staging

Question 6

Profiling

Answer 6

picking a victim based on their characteristics

Question 7

Diminished capacity

Question 8

Projective tests

Answer 8

tests that are based on the notion that if an individual is shown an ambiguous stimulus and asked to respond to it, response will reveal aspects of their personality

Question 9

Disorganized offenders

Question 10

Psycholegal

Question 11

Dissimulation

Answer 11

conscious attempt to deliberately attempt to minimize or deny symptoms of a mental disorder

Question 12

Psychological autopsies

Question 13

Insanity

Question 14

Psychological testing

Question 15

Internally inconsistent

Question 16

Sexual psychopath laws

Question 17

Malingering

Question 18

Signature

Question 19

McNaughten rules

Question 20

Simulation

Question 21

Mens rea

Question 22

Souvenir

Question 23

Modus operandi (MO)

Question 24

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Question 25

Organized offenders

Question 26

Trophy

Question 27

Overkill

Question 28

Victimology

Question 29

when fantasies are used to organize a collection of deviant thinking into a criminal thought

Answer 29

premeditation

Question 30

two common types of projective tests

Answer 30

Rorschach inkblot test, thematic apperception test (TAT)