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Psych 526 Exam 3 questions with correct answers
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Psych 526 Exam 3 questions withcorrect answers
fundamental attribution error - ANSWER: ➡ concept that we tend to make an error ignoring
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role of a situation when explaining somebody's behavior
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actor-observer bias - ANSWER: ➡ if i do a bad thing, its the situation, not my character. if you
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do a bad thing, its your bad character.
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self-fulfilling prophecy - ANSWER: ➡ when we apply a label to somebody, we often see what
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we expect to see
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confirmation biases - ANSWER: ➡ tendency to look for things that confirm things that we
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already know
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attitudes - ANSWER: ➡ beliefs that can get activated in certain situations and result in
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behaviors
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deindividuation - ANSWER: ➡ lose contact with individuality, often within context of a group
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dehumanization - ANSWER: ➡ something we do to somebody else, making somebody less
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than human in our own mind
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Miranda warning - ANSWER: ➡ you have the right to remain silent...
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False confession factors - ANSWER: ➡ an authority figure insisting on guilt, lying to suspects
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about false evidence connecting them to a crime
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, Reid technique - ANSWER: ➡ isolate, theme of guilt, interrupt expressions of innocence,
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pressure then sympathy, offer face-saving explanation, increase anxiety, reduce perception of
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negative consequences
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factors that increase likelihood of coercion - ANSWER: ➡ age/ competency, conditions of
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custody and interrogation
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control theory - ANSWER: ➡ assumption that people will engage in delinquent behavior when
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their social bond to society is weakened
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stereotype - ANSWER: ➡ cognitive schemas that organize information about people based on
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their membership in certain groups
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juvenile sex offender recidivism base rate - ANSWER: ➡ 7%
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Sexual offender registration - ANSWER: ➡ designed with the idea that if we knew where sex
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offenders lived/ were we would be safer
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Megan's law - ANSWER: ➡ requires sex offender registration and community notification
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Adam Walsh Act - ANSWER: ➡ removes the confidentiality for some juveniles on sexual
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registration, and retains some
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Registration of juveniles conditions - ANSWER: ➡ 14 years or older and the offense meets
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definition of aggravated sexual assault
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aggravated sexual assault - ANSWER: ➡ use of force or violence, victim under age 12
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95% - ANSWER: ➡ % of sexual offense arrests committed by first time offenders
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