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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is low resting heart rate associated with, according to the study by Losel, Bender, and Bliesener?
(a) Antisocial behavior.
(b) Avoidance personalities.
(c) Abuse victims.
(d) Social behavior.

2. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.
(b) How parental behavior shames the child.
(c) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.
(d) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.

3. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(b) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(c) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.

4. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?
(a) Domestic abuse and homicide.
(b) Robbery and armed robbery.
(c) Murder and violent assault.
(d) Suicide and murder.

5. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?
(a) IQ.
(b) Blood pressure.
(c) Temper.
(d) Body temperature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?

2. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?

3. What causes the most damage, in terms of risk factors for violent behavior?

4. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

5. In the study by Tolan and Guerra on effective treatments, what two aspects were emphasized?

(see the answer key)

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