Forensic Psychology MCQs

Option A: While controlled experimental studies suggest that violence results in better witness accurancy, field studies of real- life witnesses are exposed to highly violent events do not give very accurate testimony.

Option B: The phenomenon of ‘weapons focus’ occur only when the central detail is a gun.

Option C: Although it is interesting to understand the impact on witness memory of factors such as the type of crime, it is not critical because what is encoded during acquisition does not from the basis for what is stored in memory and eventually retrieved when giving testimony.

Option D: None of the above.

Correct Answer: None of the above. ✔

Option A: Retrieval

Option B: Eyewitness testimony

Option C: Crime

Option D: Criminal investigations

Correct Answer: Eyewitness testimony ✔

Option A: Criminals

Option B: Leadings

Option C: Watching car aaccidents

Option D: Cognitive interviews

Correct Answer: Leadings ✔

Option A: Do the findings from psychological studies parallel what happens to real crime witnesses?

Option B: Should research findings be made available to the court to influence real trials?

Option C: Both a and b.

Option D: Neither a nor b.

Correct Answer: Both a and b. ✔

Option A: Leadings questions

Option B: Change perspective

Option C: Reporting everything

Option D: Context reinstatement

Correct Answer: Leadings questions ✔

Option A: Preparing a story on the spot

Option B: Being original

Option C: Not experiencing ability

Option D: Not experiencing emotion

Correct Answer: Preparing a story on the spot ✔

Option A: Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as ‘clinical’ in style while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’.

Option B: Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge.

Option C: Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence.

Option D: Profiling common characteristics of know offenders involves gathering data about the crime from multiple sources.

Correct Answer: C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence. ✔

Option A: Antisocial behavior

Option B: History of mental illness

Option C: Family criminality

Option D: A and C

Correct Answer: A and C ✔

Option A: Cognitive interviews

Option B: Offender profiling

Option C: Being community- based

Option D: Focus on the relationship with parents

Correct Answer: Being community- based ✔

Option A: Indiscriminate of treatment programme helps to reduce recidivism.

Option B: The type of treatment programme is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioural and multi- model approaches.

Option C: The most successful studies, while behavioural in nature, include a cognitive component.

Option D: The most effective programmes have low treatment integrity.

Correct Answer: The most successful studies, while behavioural in nature, include a cognitive component. ✔

Option A: Aggression replacement training

Option B: What Works program

Option C: Statement validity assessment

Option D: The stanford study

Correct Answer: The Cambridge study ✔

Option A: Anger management

Option B: Encoding social cues

Option C: Deception

Option D: Memory retrieval

Correct Answer: Encoding social cues ✔

Option A: Distal factors

Option B: Conduct disorder

Option C: Poor parenting

Option D: Peers

Correct Answer: B and C ✔

Option A: Overly harsh or lax parenting style.

Option B: Criminality in the family.

Option C: Low intelligence.

Option D: All of the above.

Correct Answer: All of the above. ✔

Option A: The essential element in a coerced- internalized confession is the suspect’s memory for events is correct and that the police version must therefore be false.

Option B: This type of confession is the direct opposite of cognitive dissonance.

Option C: Gudjonsson’s notion of interrogative suggestibility consider the extent to which people still maintain their responses despite intenseing.

Option D: Situational stress, individual factors and current psychological state can all combine to trigger suggestibility to misleading information on the part of the suspect, and so produce a false confession.

Correct Answer: Situational stress, individual factors and current psychological state can all combine to trigger suggestibility to misleading information on the part of the suspect, and so produce a false confession. ✔

Option A: Coerced confession

Option B: Coerced compliance

Option C: Voluntary confession

Option D: Voluntary compliance

Correct Answer: Voluntary confession ✔