PSY 372 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
What is a Micro theory? - ANS ✓A small-scale theory that explains phenomena
at an individual level
What is a theory? - ANS ✓A set of interconnected statements that explain the
relationships between two or more events
what are Inter-individual Differences - ANS ✓Variations that exist between
two or more individuals
what are Intra-individual differences - ANS ✓Variations occurring within the
same person
what is the Age-Crime Curve - ANS ✓The distribution of criminal behaviour
over the lifespan, which consistently shows that crime rates rise sharply
throughout adolescence, peak in early adulthood, and taper off during middle
and old age
What is a case study? - ANS ✓An in depth examination or observation of a
single individual
what is a Longitudinal Research Design - ANS ✓A research design that
involves making several observations of the same study participants over a
period of time, sometimes many years
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What is a third variable? - ANS ✓An extraneous and uncontrolled factor that
may be responsible for changes occurring in a study variable
What is random assignment? - ANS ✓The assignment of participants to
different study conditions on the basis of chance
- every participant must have an equal chance of being assigned to one group or
the other
What is the experimental group? - ANS ✓The study participants who are
exposed to the variable or condition under investigation
What is a control group? - ANS ✓The study participants who are not exposed to
the variable or condition under investigation and are used for comparison
purposes
what is Causal Inference - ANS ✓A logical conclusion made when experimental
results show that one variable is responsible for changing the other
- only possible in true experiments
what is a Quasi-experimental Group/experiment - ANS ✓A research design
that incorporates some of the features of a true experiment
What is a meta-analysis? - ANS ✓A method of data analysis that involves
combining the results of many studies on a particular subject to generate a
statistical estimate of the overall magnitude of their findings
- aka quantitative review its different than a lit review because lit reviews rely on
the judgments of the reviewer which is qualitative
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what is Criminal Psychology - ANS ✓The study of why people commit crime
and violence
What is criminology? - ANS ✓The study of crime and criminal behaviour
What is sociology? - ANS ✓The study of human behaviour in social groups and
society at large
what is social structure? - ANS ✓The manner in which society is organized and
stratified into groups or classes of people
what is instrumental violence/predatory violence? - ANS ✓Violence that is
pursued with a clearly defined goal or is planned.
- associated with premeditated acts that carried out in an unemotional fashion
against vics who have little to no prior relationship with perp
what is reactive violence? - ANS ✓Violence that is perpetrated by some
emotion.
- has no goal except to cause pain
- normally committed when emotions are running and in response to something
-commonly directed at people who are known by the perp
what are the two motivational groups of violence? - ANS ✓instrumental and
reactive violence
what are the 4 classifications of crime by the FBI? - ANS ✓- Criminal
enterprise homicide - killing b/c of a desire for monetary gain or status
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