Question 1

The _________ develops as a result of incorporating moral standards and values within the personality.

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superego

Question 2

Many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also suffer from _________ and continually engage in aggressive, antisocial behavior in early childhood.

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conduct disorder

Question 3

_________ is a complex delusional behavior issue resulting in people thinking that everyone is out to get them, and is marked by depression and or manic depression.

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Schizophrenia

Question 4

While the similarity of _______ behavior seems striking, what appears to be a genetic effect may also be explained by other factors, such as environment.

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Question 5

Lombroso argued that born criminals had ________________, and that their behavior could be explained by their primitive traits.

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Question 6

A deficit in emotional cognition that prevents people from being aware of their feelings or unable to talk about their emotions is known as __________________.

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Question 7

_______ children usually exhibit poor motor coordination, have behavior problems, and have improper auditory and vocal responses.

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Question 8

Psychologist John Bowlby believed that the ability to form _________-that is, emotionally bond to another person-has important, lasting psychological implications that follow people across the life span.

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Question 9

Some researchers believe neurological and physical abnormalities are acquired as early as the fetal or prenatal stage, and that they control behavior throughout the life span. The study of brain activity is termed _________.

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Question 10

It is possible that what appears to be a genetic effect, evidenced in twin research, is actually the effect of sibling influence on criminality; this is referred to as the _________.

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Question 11

According to _________, a subpopulation of men has evolved with genes that incline them toward extremely low parental involvement.

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Question 12

According to _________, over the history of the human species, aggressive males have had the greatest impact on the gene pool.

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Question 13

Advocates of the _____ school traced several generations of crime-prone families, finding evidence that criminal tendencies were based on genetics.

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Question 14

Research shows that people who start drinking by the age of _____ are five times more likely to become alcoholics than people who hold off on drinking until the age of 21.

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Question 15

Sociobiology differs from earlier theories of behavior in that it stresses that biological and genetic conditions affect how social behaviors are _________ and _________.

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Question 16

_____ theory is the view that criminality is a product of abnormal biological and/or psychological traits.

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Question 17

The first scientific studies of criminology that applied the positivist model were conducted by _________.

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Question 18

A number of biosocial theorists believe that abnormal levels of the male sex hormone _________ produce aggressive behavior and may explain gender differences in the crime rate.

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Question 19

Research shows that those who start drinking before 14 are ________ times more likely to become alcoholics than those who wait until age 21.

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Question 20

There is significant evidence of a lead-aggression linkage: areas with the highest concentrations of lead also report the highest levels of _____.

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Quiz 5: Trait Theories