Forensic Psychology - Practice Questions With Correct Answers

Forensic Psychology - Practice Questions
With Correct Answers

What are the Similarities and differences between psychology and the law? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- commonly use similar terms, however often intend
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different meanings |




- They are both concerned with predicting, explaining and controlling behaviour
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- law is based on assumptions about human nature and the manner in which
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human behaviour is determined
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- while both psychology and law accept that human behaviour is not random, law
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|relies on assumptions about human behaviour and psychology tries to
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understand and predict behaviour | | |




Describe the Role of a Forensic Psychologist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- forensic
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psychology is psychology applied to the work of the courts
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- it is the branch of psychology that interfaces with the legal and justice systems
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(APA definition)|




- the clinical practice of psychology within a legal system that embraces both civil
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and criminal law
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Describe psychological perspectives of offending behaviour - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- It has a group and individual level focus | | | | | | | |




- sees offending as a type of behaviour
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- knowledge of antisocial behaviour informs the study of crime
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, - interaction between individual and environment
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What is the role of the interaction between individual and environment -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- given the same environment, some people will be more
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likely to commit offences that others, and conversely the same person will be
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more likely to commit offences in some environments than others
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-the individual has a level of degree of criminal/antisocial tendencies and the
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environment provides the opportunity | | |




What make a good theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Based on observation
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- attempts to categorise, describe or explain
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- organises similar ideas and explanations
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- explains why or how an event of phenomena occurs
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Compare and Contrast theories of crime - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Differential
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Association Theory (Edwin Sutherland) | | |




- states that people learn to engage in crime. This learning results from
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interactions from others and often occurs in small intimate groups. People learn
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criminal techniques, motives, attitudes and rationalisations, and also learn to de-
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value conventional values and morals. Differences in association with criminals
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and non-criminals varies in duration, intensity, frequency and priority.
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- essentially criminal behaviour is learnt as anything else is. It is a response to the
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same cultural needs and values as non-criminal behaviour
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Agnew General Strain Theory
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- conceptualises how people respond to 'strain'. Strain causes negative feelings
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(e.g. fear, despair, defeat). Because of this people become angry and blame their
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