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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. What do psychopaths feel for their victims?
2. What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
3. How did a psychopath flatter forensic psychologist J. Reid Meloy?
4. What is the author's term for "successful" psychopaths?
5. What is a "desperado junkie"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is it difficult to identify psychopathy in children?
2. Why is the option of ignoring the presence of psychopathy in children no longer available?
3. Why are many clinicians and family members reluctant to identify psychopathy in childhood?
4. What "uncanny" ability of psychopaths helps them find potential victims?
5. What is a hypothetical, and why is it dangerous in arriving at a diagnosis of psychopathy?
6. 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?
7. What kinds of professions are likely choices for white-collar psychopaths?
8. What tools do white-color psychopaths use to get what they want?
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. How have family members often unwittingly contributed to a psychopath's misbehavior?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Imagine that you have a friend whose new romantic interest appears to you to be a psychopath. You know that if you directly make this suggestion to your friend, your friendship will be at an end. Write an essay on the nature of psychopathy that you could show your friend in hopes that s/he would see the similarities between the cases to which you refer and her own situation. Feel free to invent the facts of your friend's situation, remembering that those facts have to demonstrate psychopathy.
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
Clearly, the author has an interest in promoting his Psychopathy checklist for use by mental health professionals and clinicians. But this book was not written for the scientific audience. Write an essay explaining what purpose you think the author had in presenting the results of his research to the lay public. Back up your thesis with information from the text.
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