Week 11

Question 1

Homicide

Answer 1

The intentional killing of another person

Question 2

personality Types

Answer 2

The psychological classification of people into discrete categories based on the statistical combination of specific attributes

Qualitative Differences

Question 3

The Under Controlled offender

Answer 3

Quick Temper

Low tolerance for frustration

Failure to internalize inhibitions or restraints against behaving aggressively

Question 4

The over controlled offender

Answer 4

Extremely rigid behavioural inhibition system against the expression of aggression impulses

Violence characterized as explosive occurring after long periods of building anger and frustration

Question 5

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Answer 5

Goal blockage; Aversive Experience
Negative affect -> Aggression

Question 6

Cognitive Neo-Association model

Answer 6

Negative affect - fight or flight response
Learned associations between negative affect, hostile attributions, and aggression

Question 7

Excitation transfer Theory

Answer 7

Residual Arousal
Attributional Biases

Question 8

General Aggression Model

Answer 8

Inputs (individual, situational factors)

Routes (Arousal, Affect, Cognition)

Outcomes (Behavioural Responses)

Question 9

Self-Regulation

Answer 9

The ability to control our emotional responses and evaluate and select appropriate behavioural responses

Question 10

Under Regulation

Answer 10

Disinhibited or impulsive behaviour that results from a failure to exert control over ones feelings and subsequent behaviour

Question 11

Filicide

Answer 11

A general term that refers to the killing of a child by their parent

Question 12

Neonaticde

Answer 12

The killing of an infant within the first 24 hour of their birth

Question 13

Infanticide

Answer 13

The killing of the infant who is a day or older (older than 24 hours)

Question 14

Aggressive Offender

Answer 14

History of violence

Murder of child is part of pattern of violent

Question 15

Emotionally Overloaded Offender

Answer 15

No or limited history of violence

Murder of child an accumulation

Question 16

Parricide

Answer 16

The murder of a parent by their child

Question 17

Matricide

Answer 17

Killing of your mother

Question 18

Patricide

Answer 18

Killing of your father

Question 19

Mass Murder

Answer 19

A form of multiple murder that involves killing four or more victims as part of one event at a single geographical location

Question 20

Spree Murder

Answer 20

A form of multiple murder that involves killing the victims during one continuous event at two or more geographical locations

Question 21

Serial Murder

Answer 21

A form of multiple murder that involves killing two or more victims at different times (cooling off period)

Question 22

Disciple mass Killer

Answer 22

A type of mass murderer who kills as a result of their relationship with a person ordering the murdered

Jonestown Massacre

Question 23

Coercive Persuasion

Answer 23

Forms of social influence that produce significant changes in an individuals behaviour and thought processes

Question 24

Love Bombing

Answer 24

A recruitment technique often employed by cults that involves showering potential recruits with unconditional love

Question 25

The foot in the door technique

Answer 25

A compliance tactic that involved getting someone to fulfill a more extreme request by first gaining his his or her agreement to preform smaller, benign tasks and gradually increasing them

Question 26

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Answer 26

The experience of inconsistent thought results in anxiety that people may reduce by changing their attitudes to minimize the inconsistency

Question 27

Victim Selection

Answer 27

Strangers Young women High Vulnerability Sex Workers

Question 28

Motive

Answer 28

Sex, power, and control Araphilic Disorder Erotophonophlia (sexual homicide)

Question 29

Methods

Answer 29

Power/Control Eg. Non-Lethal Torture

Question 30

Female Serial Killers

Answer 30

"Active" for longer periods

Question 31

Male Serial Killers

Answer 31

"Quiet Killers"

Question 32

Visionary Serial Killers

Answer 32

Motivated by a serious psychotic disorder Delusions or Hallucinations

Question 33

Mission-Oriented Serial Killer

Answer 33

Targets victims based on an agenda or mission, electing people who he or she feels are unworthy and should be systematically eliminated from society

Question 34

Hedonistic Serial Killers

Answer 34

Motivated by the thrill enjoyment derived from killing

Question 35

Power-Oriented Serial killer

Answer 35

Motivated by the power and enjoyment derived from the exercising an ultimate life-or-death from of control over another person

Question 36

The Macdonald Triad

Answer 36

A set of three behavioural problems - fire setting, cruelty towards animals, enuresis - that emerge in early childhood Potential Precursors to serious adult adult antisocial behaviours

Question 37

The Addication model of serial murder

Answer 37

Theory states that act if murder has a ritualistic aspects for serial killers that leads them to become addicted or compelled to kill

Question 38

Aura Phase

Answer 38

Social withdrawal Abnormal Fantasises

Question 39

Trolling Phase

Answer 39

"Feeling-out" stages Living out aspects of fantasy Identifying, following victims

Question 40

Wooing Phase

Answer 40

Interactions with victim Building of trust, confidence

Question 41

Capture and Murder Phases

Answer 41

Capture and murder of victim

Question 42

Totem Phases

Answer 42

Emotional arousal from act of homicide decreases over time Symbolic Trophy Re-living homicide

Question 43

Depression phase

Answer 43

Depression Return to the aura phase

Question 44

trauma Control Model

Answer 44

The combination of certain predisposition factors and early traumatic events interact with several other factors over there life-course to "create" a serial killer