Deck 11: Families in Crisis: Violence, Abuse, and Neglect

Question 1

What proportion of women in the United States will experience domestic violence in their lifetime?

A) one in two
B) one in three
C) one in five
D) one in ten

Answer 1

one in three

Question 2

The majority of cases of elder neglect and abuse consist of ______.

A) neglect by adult daughter
B) psychological abuse
C) physical abuse
D) self-neglect

Answer 2

self-neglect

Question 3

People who belong to the ______ must care for their own children at the same time they are caring for elderly parents.

A) middle class
B) emerging generation
C) lower class
D) sandwich generation

Answer 3

sandwich generation

Question 4

Sexual abuse of elders is most commonly perpetrated by ______.

A) daughters
B) sons
C) female nursing home workers
D) male nursing home workers

Question 5

The more traditional a society is, the lower the rate of ______.

A) intimate terrorism
B) elder abuse
C) situational couple's violence
D) animal abuse

Question 6

In the World Health Organization study, which country had the lowest rate of sexual assault and sexual abuse by a partner?

A) Peru
B) Bangladesh
C) Japan
D) Egypt

Question 7

The two key elements in the cycle of violence, which violent partners use to continue to perpetrate violence against a partner without fear of him or her leaving, are ______ and ______.

A) authority; manipulation
B) power; control
C) means; opportunity
D) love; affection

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a reason that some women remain in an abusive relationship?

A) They develop a sense of learned helplessness.
B) They blame themselves for the violence.
C) Violence against women is legal in some states.
D) Fear of violence toward children or pets keeps them in the relationship.

Question 9

Increasing pressure on the nervous system resulting from stress, which prevents internal balance or equilibrium, is referred to as ______.

A) allostatic load
B) cognitive load
C) neurological load
D) hippocampus load

Question 10

Which woman is at GREATEST risk of being a victim of IPV?

A) Paula, a 22-year-old straight mother of three children, who did not complete high school
B) Amber, a 17-year-old straight high school student from an upper-middle-class intact family
C) Lisa, a 42-year-old lesbian attorney with two children
D) Sue, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher whose children have left home

Question 11

Which group experiences the lowest rates of IPV in the United States?

A) Whites
B) African Americans
C) Asian Americans
D) Latinos

Question 12

Women of which ethnic group are MOST likely to report IPV?

A) Whites
B) African Americans
C) Asian Americans
D) Latinos

Question 13

Which statement is an argument AGAINST the feminist view of battering as a function of patriarchal society?

A) Battering is strongly correlated with poverty and lack of education.
B) In both traditional and modern societies, more women are victims than men.
C) Even in highly traditional societies, most men do not become batterers.
D) Battering is a manifestation of men's power and control over women.

Question 14

______ batterers tend to dissociate themselves from their actions and act distant to their partners.

A) Euthymic/borderline
B) Dysthymic/borderline
C) Dysphoric/borderline
D) Euphoric/borderline

Question 15

When men with a preoccupied/enmeshed attachment style become batterers, they are MOST LIKELY to become violent when their partners ______.

A) provoke an argument
B) withdraw from an argument
C) display passivity
D) display hostility

Question 16

The BEST therapy method for couples experiencing IPV is ______.

A) joint couples counseling
B) individual therapy while continuing to live together
C) individual therapy while living apart
D) a combination of joint and individual therapy while living together

Question 17

Which statement about the Duluth model is INCORRECT?

A) It increases the percentage of men who stop battering by about 5%.
B) It focuses on rehabilitation of the batterer and support for the survivor.
C) It emphasizes repairing the couple's relationship and keeping them together.
D) It is based on many community agencies working together.

Question 18

Children are MOST LIKELY to be physically abused before age ______.

A) 5
B) 8
C) 12
D) 18

Question 19

Most deaths in children who suffer from maltreatment result from ______.

A) burns
B) shaking
C) lacerations
D) neglect

Question 20

Which statement about child neglect is INCORRECT?

A) Chronically neglected infants have high rates of disease.
B) Neglected infants grow up to neglect or abuse their own children.
C) Parents often neglect a child because he or she is lonely or anxious.
D) Infants can die from the stress of prolonged, unanswered crying.

Question 21

Issues of patriarchy, gender bias, sexism, and oppression of women are not very accurate indicators of a society where IPV is likely to run high.

Question 22

IPV is solely by patriarchy, just as many feminists argue.

Question 23

Pets and children, harm to the victims' family, financial and emotional dependence, and love for the batterer all play into a woman's decision to stay in an IPV relationship.

Question 24

Family only batterers are generally the most violent and their violence toward partners typically ends in injury or even homicide.

Question 25

Pit bull type batterers can be loving and usually feel tender feelings toward their partners.

Question 26

Those with anxious/enmeshed/preoccupied attachments are especially vulnerable to relationship violence.

Question 27

Batterer intervention programs have notoriously low rates of success.

Question 28

Children exposed to IPV can actually have fewer negative physiological symptoms than other children due to their learned coping skills.

Question 29

Hostile attribution bias is a cognitive style of interpreting ambiguous social stimuli as negative or hostile in nature.

Question 30

Most maltreatment fatalities are infants and toddlers.

Question 31

A small minority of child physical abuse occurs during difficult interactions revolving around feeding and toileting, as compared to other interactions.

Question 32

It's fairly uncommon for a child to experience only one type of abuse or neglect.

Question 33

In a community of care model, foster care is provided to children by their biological relatives.

Question 34

Family violence tends to be intergenerational, with abused children growing up to be violent in their own families.

Question 35

Interestingly, out of the three million reports of child maltreatment, virtually no reports were ruled intentionally false.

Question 36

Some cultural practices, which are not abuse, may be perceived as abuse.

Question 37

There is a typical pattern seen in many abusive relationships called the ______.

Question 38

During a(n) ______, there may be happy or romantic times, fun times with the children, and a sense of normalcy. But soon the tension builds.

Question 39

______ is part of the cycle of violence, which occurs after the honeymoon period and is characterized by increasing tension and foreshadowing of violence to come.

Question 40

Long-term victims of IPV may develop a sense of ______, in which they don't even try to leave because they feel their attempts won't succeed.

Question 41

Most communities today have ______ policies whereby women no longer have to voluntarily decide to press charges against their batterer.

Question 42

Trauma from IPV may also induce ______ symptoms such as cognitive and memory impairment or even amnesia.

Question 43

______ are people who use their protective factors and coping skills to get themselves out of a dangerous situation.

Question 44

Statistics show that ______ are more likely to be victims of IPV from spouses than are other races, while African Americans are more likely to be victimized by boyfriends.

Question 45

______ usually exhibit the lowest rates of IPV in most studies conducted in the United States.

Question 46

______ women are the most likely to report IPV.

Question 47

What factors make abuse of elderly persons particularly difficult to detect?

Question 48

Explain how the physiological stress response affects a person living with IPV.

Question 49

Explain the factors that make the rate and incidence of IPV, both in the general population and within different ethnic groups, difficult to determine.

Question 50

Explain the relationship between attachment style and battering.