Deck 6: Separation and Intimate Partner Femicide-Suicide

Question 1

According to Wilson & Daly, when "desperate husbands filled with rage and despair" perpetrate femicide-suicide against
Women who leave them, they are demonstrating:

A)evolutionary adaptation
B)dominance
C)fitness maximization
D)evolutionary determination

Answer 1

dominance

Question 2

Findings reported by Cooper & Eaves cannot be interpreted as supporting the evolutionary MSP explanation because they:

A)analyzed secondary data
B)did not measure separation
C)did not measure MSP
D)selected a small sample

Answer 2

did not measure MSP

Question 3

Support for the MSP explanation provided by Polk's findings is:

A)weak
B)ambiguous
C)strong
D)very weak

Answer 3

weak

Question 4

For researchers such as Dutton & Kerry, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and femicide
-suicide perpetrated by extremely dependent male partners is the perception of separation as:

A)unexpected
B)utter abandonment
C)an opportunity
D)immoral

Question 5

In Black's sociological social control theory, female intimate partners are killed for committing the "crime" of
Separation, and male partners then kill themselves as punishment for committing the crime of:

A)promiscuity
B)femicide
C)jealousy
D)patriarchy

Question 6

Findings reported by Harper & Voight suggest that femicide-suicide is an outcome of loss of control associated with:

A)age differences between partners
B)decreasing effects of the patriarchy
C)gender inequality
D)female partner-initiated separations

Question 7

According to Stack, femicide-suicide is the outcome of a blend of:

A)self-blame/other blame
B)willing/unwilling separation
C)gender/social class
D)jealousy/other blame

Question 8

Findings reported by Adler indicate that the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and
Femicide-suicide is:

A)jealousy
B)possessiveness
C)public social humiliation
D)private ragec.

Question 9

In Henry and Short's description of the dynamic of femicide-suicide, female-initiated divorce is conceived as:

A)a major source of frustration
B)a moral outrage
C)an act of aggression
D)motivated by spite
E)conflict resolution

Question 10

In the attachment theory formulated by Stack, femicide-suicide stems from two sources. One is self/other blame; the other is:

A)extreme possessiveness
B)frustration-aggression
C)jealousy
D)depression

Question 11

For male partners suffering from BPD, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and femicide-
Suicide is:

A)poor conflict resolution skills
B)frustration
C)patriarchal attitudes
D)guilt

Question 12

For Roberts & Noller, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and femicide-suicide is:

A)togetherness in the next life
B)fear of abandonment
C)jealousy
D)intoxication

Question 13

Dutton & Kerry reported findings indicating that 87% of the 90 femicide-suicides they studied were:

A)"premeditated murders"
B)"murders motivated by jealousy"
C)"caused by guns"
D)"sudden murders"

Question 14

Roberts & Noller report findings indicating that the final interaction context for the femicide-suicides they studied was:

A)intoxication
B)dependency
C)depression
D)conflict

Question 15

Compared with males who died by suicide, perpetrators of intimate partner femicide were more than two times more
Likely to have a history of:

A)mutual dependence
B)depression
C)intimate partner conflict
D)BPD

Question 16

For evolutionary psychological theorists such as Daly & Wilson, the causal mechanism underlying the association
Between separation and femicide-suicide is:

A)challenging male ownership
B)other blame/self-blame
C)BPD
D)extreme dependency

Question 17

For attribution theorists such as Stuck, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and femicide-suicide is:

A)extreme dependency
B)BPD
C)self-blame/other blame
D)a gender-specific strategy

Question 18

For conflict resolution theorists, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and femicide-suicide is:

A)intensity of conflict
B)fear of abandonment
C)extreme jealousy
D)fear of abandonment.