MCQs of Psychology – Forensic Psychology

Which of the following statements is correct in relation to acquisition?

The status of the investigator, the type of the crime, the age of the witness and the type of questioning represents variables related to which topic of study by forensic psychologists?

Research examining witness memory has shown that after watching a traffic accident, if the car was described as “smashed”, then the witness was more likely to say that she had seen broken glass.This type of research has informed us about the influence of:

An issue that is boarder than the strength of the evidence concerns its validity when applied to the real world. Bearing that in mind, which of the following would be relevant questions to ask?

All of the following refers to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for:

Highlight the two correct answers from the following which relate to why people make false confessions.
1: Munsterberg raised the issue of why people make false confessions.
2: Why people make false confessions is a very ‘geographical’ question.
3: A distinction has been drawn between two types of false confession- voluntary and coerced.
4: Coerced false confession can be broken down further into two sub- types- coerced- compliant and coerced- externalized false confessions.

The desire for notoriety, guilt feelings and the desire to protect someone else describe the psychology contributing to which forensic outcome?

Which of the following are true with respect to police interrogation?
1: The law relating to the conduct of police interrogation of suspect are the same from country to country.
2: Police interrogation manuals fro both Britain and America tell us that, from a police perspective, the interrogator must over come the suspect’s natural resistance to tell the truth.
3: From a police perspective, the interrogator must be skilled in the use of strategies to persuade suspect to confess.
4: All of the above.

Which TWO of the following general statements about interrogation would we say are true?
1: There have recently been various legal changes in the rules governing the conduct of interrogation to eliminate dubious practice.
2: After years of maintaining the same interrogational laws, there will soon be various legal changes in the rules governing the conduct of interrogations to eliminate dubious practice.
3: Techniques are in place allowing us to see how the minutiae of social exchanges during interrogation influence the final outcome.
4: It can difficult to be contain of how the minutiae of social exchanges during interrogation influence the final outcome.

Which of the following is true when it comes to coerced internalization?

The following qualities make a good liar except for:

Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

Which of the following are include in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?

Aggression and violent conduct can be best predicted by:

The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:

Which THREE of the following statements are correct with regard to anger and moral reasoning?
1:According to Novaco(11675), anger is the result of an environmental event triggering distinctive patterns of psychological and cognitive arousal. This trigger usually lies in the individual’s perception of the words and actions of another person.
2: When we become angry, increased autonomic nervous system activity includes a rise in body temperature, perspiration muscular tension and increased cardiovascular activity.
3: Attentional cueing is the tendency to see hostility and provocation in the words and actions of other people.
4: cognitive distortions are the way of rationalizing or mislabelling someone else’s behaviour.

research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include.

Which extensive, longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?