Forensic Psych - Exam 1 (Rutgers) Questions With Correct Answers

Forensic Psych - Exam 1 (Rutgers) Questions
With Correct Answers

Forensic psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A subfield of psychology in which
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basic and applied psychological science or scientifically- oriented professional
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practice is applied to the law to help resolve legal, contractual, or administrative
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matters


Forensic psychologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-psychologists who help courts
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make decisions about people when some question related to psychology is
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involved


Typical activities forensic psychologists engage in: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-They
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provide services (e.g., assessment, treatment, presentation of research) explicitly
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for the purposes of informing a legal decision.
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- Performing a child custody evaluation
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- Conducting competency restoration treatment services
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- Proving a summary of the research data about factors that contribute to a false
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confessions


"Pre-adjudication" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-before the legal decision is made,
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forensic psychologists help courts make informed decisions about cases
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Overlap of forensic psychology with other fields - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Cognitive psychology: eyewitness identification
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,Physiological psychology: polygraphs
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Social Psychology: Jury Behavior
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Developmental Psychology: Testimony of children in court
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Correctional Psychology: Prisons and Jails
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Police Psychology: criminal profiling, fitness for duty evaluations, hostage
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negotiations
Clinical Psychology: Assessment and treatment of individuals within a legal
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context. Psychopathy, insanity, risk assessment, personal injury, civil commitment
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Cognitive psychology: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-eyewitness identification
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Physiological psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-polygraphs
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Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-jury Behavior
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Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Testimony of children in
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court


Correctional Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Prisons and Jails
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Police Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-criminal profiling, fitness for duty
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evaluations, hostage negotiations
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,Clinical Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assessment and treatment of
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individuals within a legal context. Psychopathy, insanity, risk assessment, personal
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|injury, civil commitment
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Criminal Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Acts against society
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- Government pursues criminal matters through law enforcement officers and
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prosecutors
- Focus: punish offenders, deter crime
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- "Mens rea" = "guilty mind" - principle of criminal responsibility - relates to
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person's mental state. Question of insanity
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Civil Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-defined as a wrong against an individual (
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person against person. When someone has wronged someone else. Has to be
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something big enough for a person to go after) | | | | | | | |




- Concerned with private rights and remedies... not the public good
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- Torts - a wrongful act that causes harm to an individual
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- Up to the harmed person, not society, to take action
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- Breach of duty may be intentional or result in negligence - below reasonable
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level of care
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- Plaintiff who has been wronged brings action against a defendant who has
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violated rights |




Examples of forensic practice in CRIMINAL law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Risk
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Assessment at the time of sentencing | | | | |




- Insanity and criminal responsibility
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- Competency to stand trial
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, - Treatment of sexual offenders
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- Juvenile transfer to adult court
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Examples of forensic practice in CIVIL law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Child custody
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- Civil commitment
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- Personal injury
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- Worker's compensation
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- Competency to make medical decisions
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- Car accident = can cause damage to auto, physical damage, PTSD
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Reality of forensic practice (media vs. reality, perception vs. reality) - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- Criminal side is overemphasized; Civil understudied, though a
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portion of forensic practice as a whole
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- The popularity of this particular profession has grown by leaps and bounds ever
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since TV shows have started showcasing characters who solve crimes in this way
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(DEXTER)*
Reality - 10% of forensic psychologists do criminal profiling
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Forensic Science - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the combination of science and legal
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procedures. Science is often used to collect evidence from crime scenes to
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determine what actually happened and to prove the perpetrator of a criminal act
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Law enforcement (Criminal/Police Psychologist) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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primarily work with police officers and other law enforcement professionals,
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working as consultants or counseling law enforcement officers after a crisis such
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as an on-the-job shooting
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