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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When do psychopathic children lie when normal children would not?
2. What does a preschool psychopath understand about right and wrong?
3. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?
4. What did people remember most about Gary Tison, the murderer?
5. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?
Short Essay Questions
1. What distinguishes the lying of psychopaths from that of other liars?
2. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?
3. What benefits came from public exposure to the man who claimed to be a Berkeley Ph.D. in psychology and was discovered by a local reporter to have faked his resume when he ran for the school board?
4. Why are the victims of psychopaths so reluctant to believe evidence of their wrongdoing?
5. What is a hypothetical, and why is it dangerous in arriving at a diagnosis of psychopathy?
6. What warnings does the author give to those who are trying to deal with psychopaths in their lives?
7. Why are nurturing, kind-hearted women ideal victims for psychopaths?
8. What does the Psychopathy checklist provide to clinicians that they are lacking?
9. Why is the typical advice to quit indulging misbehaving youth and get them into therapy considered by the author to be doomed to failure?
10. Why does the author think it important to know about the eyes of a psychopath?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It has been said that "guilt is a blessing, not a curse". Using evidence from the text, write an essay for or against the proposition that guilt is an important, useful tool in our individual lives and social interactions.
Essay Topic 2
An Australian judge put a psychopathic killer into a mental institution rather than a prison on the grounds that "anyone would have to be crazy to behave in that fashion." In your essay, support or refute the argument that psychopaths are obviously mentally ill. Use information from the text to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing and contrasting criminal psychopaths with non-criminal psychopaths. Include statistics and examples from the text that illustrate both similarities and differences.
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