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Questions

Chapter 4

1. What psychological process is one of the most important elements in the decision to commit crime?

a. sanitizing the conscience

b. cost/benefit analvsis

c. mentally planning the logistics of the crime

d. analyzing the risks involved

Chapter 8

2. By forcing their partners to have sex, it has been hypothesized that, men who are suspicious of their partner's fidelity introduce their own sperm into their partner's reproductive tract and thereby decrease the risk of

a. male supremacy

b. emotional infidelity

c. patriarchial terrorism

d. cuckoldry

3. Proponents of the domination and control hypothesis ague that men as a group, through sexual coercion of their own partners, are motivated to

a. become a terrorist

b. exert patriarchial power

c. disengage in sperm competition

d. dominate all males

4. Men and women respond differently to partner infidelity; men are more distressed about more distressed about________and women are more distressed about________

a. emotional infidelity, sexual infidelity

b. sexual infidelity, emotional infidelity

c. infidelity with someone known to them, infidelity with a stranger

d. men and women distress about all infidelity equally

5. Buss developed a taxonomy of mate retention behaviors; which one of the following is not one of these categories?

a. public aggression

b. direct guarding

c. positive inducements

d. intersexual negative inducements

6. Shackelford and Goetz found a positive relationship between men's nonviolent controlling behaviors and

a. their partner's infidelity

b. their partner's attractiveness

c. men's emotional abuse

d. men's sexual coercion of their partner

Chapter 11

7. What is the most common type of motivation for both men's and women's homicides?

a. arguments and fights

b. felony-related

c. partners in crime

d. gang-related

8. Which term defines a man who kills his biological children, his partner, and possibly himself?

a. sororcide

b. patricide

c. genocide

d. familicide

9. Which of the following is a similarity between male and female homicide offenders?

a. Both are more likely to have female victims

b. Both are more likely to have male victims

C. Both are more likely to kill an intimate partner

d. Both are more likely to kill their own children

10. What is likely to trigger a female homicide of her intimate partner?

a. fear of her own death or the safety of her children

b. possessiveness over her husband

c. sexual jealousy over a known infidelity

d. inability to accept termination of the relationship