Family Violence and Child Victimization MCQs
Family Violence and Child Victimization MCQs
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1: Compared to domestic violence, intimate partner violence can best be described as a more ______ term.
A. Controversial
B. Clinical
C. Inclusive
D. Divisive
2: Which type of male batterer constitutes about 50% of known batterers and is the least likely to have a previous arrest record?
A. Family-only
B. Homosexual
C. Dysphoric/borderline
D. Generally violent/antisocial
3: All of the following are stages of battered women syndrome except the ______.
A. Acute battering incident phase
B. Honeymoon phase
C. Dysphoric/borderline phase
D. Tension-building phase
4: According to Meuer et al.’s (2002) nine stages of IPV, the first incident of physical abuse usually occurs in ______.
A. Stage one
B. Stage three
C. Stage five
D. Stage ten
5: A woman who conceals her pregnancy and then kills her newborn infant within the first 24 hr after birth has committed ______.
A. Filicide
B. Neonaticide
C. Patricide
D. Soricide
6: In Munchausen syndrome by proxy, the child’s presenting symptoms are falsified by the ______.
A. Physician
B. Parent
C. Child
D. Therapist
7: Which type of child abduction is the most common?
A. Parental abduction
B. Teacher abduction
C. Acquaintance abduction
D. Stranger abduction
8: The most frequent perpetrators of elder abuse are health-care workers.
A. True
B. False
9: Many people cannot recall events that occurred prior to age three. This is known as ______.
A. Tabula rosa
B. Infantile amnesia
C. Neonatal repression
D. Filial loss
10: The courts refer to repressed-then-recovered memory as ______.
A. Delayed discovery
B. False memory
C. The iatrogenic effects
D. The memory war
11: Which of the following is a motivation for women who abuse men?
A. Power and control
B. Financial gain
C. Self-defense
D. Sexual gratification
12: The majority of IPV victims eventually kill their abusers.
A. True
B. False
13: Research suggests that the more frequent and severe the IPV, the more likely that various kinds of child abuse are also occurring.
A. True
B. False
14: The Conflict Tactics Scale is a risk assessment instrument used for determining the ______.
A. Likelihood of recidivism of domestic violence
B. Extent of intimate partner violence
C. Psychological characteristics of batterers
D. Frequency of child abductions
15: Rates of child sexual abuse have declined since the 1990s.
A. True
B. False
16: _____ is defined as severe damage to a child’s brain as a result of head injury sustained by the actions of another, typically a parent or caretaker (e.g., shaking, throwing against a wall). Formerly called shaken baby syndrome.
A. juvenile delinquent
B. Nomothetic
C. Abusive head trauma (AHT)
D. None of these
17: _____ is known as a cluster of behavioral and psychological characteristics believed common to women who have been abused in relationships.
A. Teacher abduction
B. Battered woman syndrome (BWS)
C. All of these
D. Parental abduction
18: Is battering a term often reserved for physical violence experienced in intimate relationships, such as in a dating relationship, marriage or partnership, or separation and divorce?
A. False
B. True
19: _____ is unlawfully leading, taking, enticing, or detaining a child under a specified age with intent to keep or conceal the child from the parent, guardian, or other person having lawful custody.
A. How can the victim be profiled?
B. What actions did the victim take that caused the crime?
C. All of these
D. child abduction
20: _____ is defined as a measure used by researchers and clinicians to gauge the level of disruption and violence in interpersonal relationships.
A. None of these
B. Older than the usual offender
C. Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)
D. Deficient in social and interpersonal skills
21: _____ is known as one of the measures used to assess the extent of violence in a relationship and predict the likelihood of future occurrence.
A. Adjudication
B. None of these
C. Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG)
D. Incarceration
22: Is dysphoric/borderline batterers batterers who exhibit mental disorders and are psychologically disturbed and emotionally volatile. These individuals often engage in moderate to severe spousal abuse, including psychological and sexual abuse?
A. False
B. True
23: _____ is defined as the physical, financial, emotional, or psychological harm of an older adult, usually defined as age 65 or older.
A. A forensic social worker
B. All of these
C. elder abuse
D. A forensic entomologist
24: _____ is defined as refers to any assault, including sexual assault, or other crime that results in the personal injury or death of one or more family or household member(s) by another who is or was residing in the same dwelling.
A. Demanding
B. All of these
C. Heterogeneous
D. family violence
25: _____ is known as these are violent offenders who usually do not engage in violence outside the family. Their violence tends to be periodic, primarily when stress and frustration reach a peak.
A. family-only batterers
B. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
C. Mothers Against Drunk Driving
D. None of these
26: Is filicide killing of one’s child who is older than 1 year?
A. False
B. True
27: _____ is refers to memory—usually considerably accurate—of high-impact events, such as an automobile accident or a mass shooting.
A. Competency
B. Aggravating
C. flashbulb memory
D. None of these
28: _____ is defined as batterers who are likely to use weapons and who are more prone to inflict severe injury on wives, partners, and other family members, in addition to engaging in extrafamilial violence.
A. Reconstitution
B. Restoration
C. Generally violent/antisocial batterers
D. None of these
29: _____ is known as a process whereby mental or physical disorders are unintentionally induced or developed in patients by physicians, clinicians, or psychotherapists.
A. It must last for at least 3 months
B. iatrogenic effect
C. None of these
D. It is a common reaction to a highly disturbing, traumatic event
30: Is infanticide although this term literally means the killing of an infant, it is also used for the killing of a child by a parent, and is then divided into neonaticide and filicide?
A. False
B. True
31: _____ is normal lack of memory of events that happened very early in one’s life, typically but not necessarily before age 4.
A. Typology
B. Clinical diagnosis
C. None of these
D. infantile amnesia
32: _____ is defined as violent crimes committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends.
A. Self-defense
B. Coerced-internalized false confessions
C. All of these
D. Intimate partner violence (IPV)
33: _____ is known as an unusual form of child abuse in which the parent (usually the mother) or parents consistently bring a child for medical attention with symptoms falsified or directly induced by the parent or parents. Term is gradually being replaced by the term child medical abuse.
A. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP)
B. Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP)
C. All of these
D. Control
34: Is neonaticide the killing of a newborn, usually under 48 hours old, sometimes defined as under 24 hours old?
A. False
B. True
35: _____ is instrument recommended for use by law enforcement officers and others to determine the likelihood that an individual will commit future violence within the family.
A. None of these
B. Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA)
C. Political activists
D. Prisoners
36: _____ is defined as perspective that memory is continually vulnerable to revision.
A. None of these
B. Infancy
C. Early adulthood
D. reconstructive theory of memory
37: _____ is known as state of being unaware that a traumatic event occurred.
A. Sexually violent predators may be civilly committed without a diagnosis of mental disorder
B. None of these
C. repressed memory
D. Some states allow violent sex offender to be committed to mental institutions against their will after completing prison sentences
38: Is repression refers to the psychological process of keeping something out of awareness because of the traumatic effect connected with it?
A. True
B. False
39: _____ is see Abusive head trauma.
A. excessive force
B. Neonatal repression
C. Shaken baby syndrome (SBS)
D. None of these
40: _____ is defined as evaluates an individual’s risk of committing violence against a spouse or intimate partner.
A. Delinquency trajectory
B. All of these
C. Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA)
D. Developmental perspective
41: _____ is known as refers to the research finding that the things we experience in one emotional or physiological state—such as happiness, fear, or even intoxication—are sometimes easier to recall when we are again in that same state.
A. Geographic profiling
B. All of these
C. state-dependent memory
D. Confirmation profiling
42: Is vicarious traumatization occurs when clinicians are exposed to a series of trauma victims, which often leads to a high incidence of professional burnout?
A. False
B. True
43: Compared with single-parent homes, two-parent homes usually have _____.
A. Stronger moral values
B. Higher income
C. Fewer children
44: The percentage of u.s. school-age children who live in single-parent households is _____.
A. 31%
B. 52%
C. 21%
D. 65%
45: The textbook states that _________ is the most critical influence on adolescents' adjustment.
A. The quality of the parent-child relationships at home
B. Attending a good school
C. Financial security
D. Living in a safe neighborhood
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