40 POINTS CRIMINAL SOCIOLOGY

1. Maladaptive behavior refers to behavior that is ___.

A. Overt
B. Frustrated
C. Covert
D. Maladjusted

2. In the study of human behavior, unpleasant feelings are

considered
A. Positive arousal
B. Negative arousal
C. Mixed arousal
D. Sexual arousal

3. Criminals possesses a fat physique are considered, __ on the

basis of the somatotyping theory.
A. mesomorph
B. endomorph
C. ectomorph
D. mixed type

4. The aspect of human behavior that refers to the way of thinking,

reasoning, and problem solving is called -
A. Emotional
B. Morality
C. Intellectual
D. Both A and C

5. The kind of family structure that could influence a person to

criminal behavior, characterized by non-satisfaction of one or
both parent from the relationship that may express feeling of
frustration refers to -
A. Anti-social Families
B. Disturbed Families
C. Inadequate Families
D. Disrupted Families
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6. Persistent fear of some objects or situation that present no actual
danger to the person is an abnormality called -
A. Negativism
B. Conversion Disorder
C. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
D. Phobic Disorder

7. The group of disorders typically stemmed from immature and

distorted personality development, resulting in persistent
maladaptive ways of perceiving and thinking are known as -
A. Neuroses
B. Psychoses
C. Paranoid disorder
D. Psychopathic behavior

8. A person who violate criminal law because of the impulse of fit of

passion or sudden burst of anger or spell of jealousy is classified
as -
A. Ordinary criminal
B. Acute criminal
C. Chronic criminal
D. none of these

9. The group of major disorders involving loss of contact with reality

and hospitalization is generally required are called -
A. Psychotic Behaviors
B. Neurotic Behaviors
C. Psychopathic Behaviors
D. Addictive Behaviors

10. It is the natural transmission of physical characteristics, mental

traits, and tendency to disease, etc, from parents to offspring. In
genetics, the tendency manifested by an organism to develop in
the likeness of a progenitor due to the transmission of genes in
the reproductive process.
A. Heredity
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 B. Environment
C. Inheritance
D. Hallucination

11. It has been considered as the “cradle of human personality,” for

in it the child forms the fundamental attitudes and habits that
endure throughout his life.
A. School
B. Religion
C. Home
D. Police agency

12. To understand crimes, we need assessment of those forces

resulting from man’s collective survival effort with emphasis
upon his institutions, economic, financial, educational, political,
religion as well as recreational. What approached is being
described?
A. Economic approach
B. Ecological approach
C. Political approach
D. Socio-cultural approach

13. The Differential Association Theory provides a good illustration of

a social learning approach perspective in Criminology. Criminal
behavior according to this theory is
A. a result of an emotional disturbance
B. an inmate quality of goodness or badness
C. learned and not inherited
D. an excess of wisdom

14. Some criminology theorists have linked physical characteristics

with personality. Among these theories is W illiam Sheldon’s
Somatotyping theory. He classified body physique into three
categories as the endomorphic, the mesomorphic and the
ectomorphic body. Of the following statements, which appropriately
describes the mesomorphic?
A. the twin and fragile with withdrawn behavior
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 B. the muscular and hard physique
C. the attractive and beautifully shaped
D. the fat and soft body type

15. What is the independent study of the relationship and interactions

between the offender and the victim before, during and after the
crime?
A. Criminal Justice
B. Victimology
C. Victim Science
D. Victimography

16. In the organized crime world, one who bribes, buys, intimidates and
negotiates into a relationship with the police or public official is the -
A. Enforcer
B. Reporter
C. Corrupter
D. Corruptee

17. The group of crimes that are categorized as violent crimes and
property crimes are called
A. Index crimes
B. Conventional Crimes
C. Violent crimes
D. None of these

18. It is defined as “violent theft”, the taking of property belonging to

another with intent to gain by means of force upon things, violence
or intimidation against person. Which of the following?
A. Robbery
B. Manslaughter
C. Larceny
D. Hold-up

19. Pedro bought a Rolex watch from Juan. Unknown to Pedro, such
watch was a stolen material. The act of buying or selling stolen
properties is punished as -
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 A. Fence
B. Forgery
C. Larceny
D. Malicious mischief

20. Ordinarily, when a crime is committed. What if the crime is one

which there is no clear victim readily identifiable, how do we term
such crimes?
A. Public Order Crimes
B. Victimless crimes
C. Consensual crimes
D. Any of the above

21. Freudian view on behavior includes the belief that personality is of

three developmental stages. Which of the following refers to the
drives that people have or the drives for pleasure? If humans have
instincts, this is where they are.
A. id
B. super ego
C. ego
D. engot

22. When the study involving crime is focused on the causation factors,
such study falls under the field of -
A. Sociology of Law
B. Penological studies
C. Breaking of the laws
D. Criminal Etiology

23. The Pillar of Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody,
supervision and rehabilitation of convicted offender is the -
A. Community pillar
B. Correction pillar
C. Police pillar
D. The Court

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24. In the past, psychologist assumed that they could best
understand human behavior by searching for a stable, consistent
personality dispositions or traits that exert orderly generalized
effects on behavior. Which among the following theory on Criminal
Behavior is not consistent with the previous statement?
A. Psychoanalytical Theory
B. Behavioral descriptions
C. Psychological Determination
D. Differential Association Theory

25. Jane, a 42 year old housewife, was brought to the clinic by her
family, who stated that the patient had disappeared from her home
four years previously, and had recently been identified and returned
from Sta. Catalina, a small town over a thousand miles away from
your place. On rejoining her parents, husband and child, she
appeared to be anxious and indecisive and soon she had begun to
insist that she really had never seen them before and that her name
was not Jane, and that it was all a case of mistaken identity. What
statement best describes the behavior of Jane?
A. Jane is under a state of amnesia
B. Jane is an irresponsible wife and mother
C. Jane is in trouble with the police
D. Jane is actually Rose

26. Billy, a highly intelligent but quite introverted and withdrawn 33

year old computer analyst, was seen and reported to have hard time
in making friends because he never knows what to say in a
conversation and very anxious and embarrassed when someone
tries to talk with him. He is happiest when he is alone. What kind of
personality Billy is experiencing?
A. Schizoid personality
B. Narcissistic personality
C. Borderline personality
D. Histrionic personality

27. A direct casual link between media violence and increased

aggressiveness on the part of the viewer is difficult to prove.
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 However, the evidence of a relationship between TV violence and
later aggressiveness is quite strong. Among the statements below,
which is most logically correct?
A. Watching Robocop influences prostitution
B. The boy fired a real gun against his father as an influence of the
movie Robocop
C. The boy hanged himself as a result of watching Robocop, the
movie
D. The boy is living in a fantasy world after watching Robocop

28. Parental discipline appears relation to delinquency. Harsh

discipline in the home may result in more delinquencies than
consistent and reasoning forms of discipline. Aside from this,
screaming at the child, calling the child insulting names, excessive
criticizing or generally ignoring the child is also contributory to
delinquency. These actions simply refers to -
A. Physical Abuse
B. Emotional abuse
C. Unfair parent
D. Parental neglect

29. Overt behavior refers behavior refers to an action or response

that is directly observable while covert behavior refers to a
response that is -
A. known and seen
B. derived from conclusion
C. called hypothesis
D. hidden

30. Which of the following has the nearest meaning of the term
heredity?
A. Generation to generation
B. Genetic influence
C. Environmental factor
D. Parent to offspring

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31. In the study of human motivation, what specific drive is referred
to by this statement: “an athlete buying a bottle of cola after a
game”?
A. Sex
B. Hunger
C. Thirst
D. Water

32. In the study of intelligence and criminal behavior, the acronym IQ

means -
A. Intelligence Quality
B. Intelligence Quantity
C. Intelligence Quotient
D. Intelligence Quotation

33. Normally, when a person is frustrated, he is experiencing -

A. bad moods
B. negative emotions
C. bad dreams
D. conflict

34. What aspect of human behavior refers to the way of thinking,

reasoning, and problem solving?
A. Emotional
B. Morality
C. Intellectual
D. Social

35. Which of the following statement best describes the term “urge”?
A. a strong impulse to action
B. a sexual libido
C. a stimulation of the digestive system
D. uncontrollable emotion

36. In the study of behavior, if light is the stimulus for vision, what is
it for the audition?
A. Somesthesia
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 B. Olfaction
C. Odor
D. Sound waves

37. Which of the following best describe the word “foresight”?

A. Vision or dream
B. ability to think ahead
C. imagination of things as they may occur in the future
D. all of the above

38. It is the society’s prime instrument for making known what acts
are crimes and what sanctions may be applied to those who commit
acts defined as crimes. This refers to -
A. Ethics
B. Law
C. Conduct
D. Justice

39. Among the following field of study, which one deals with the
study of human society, its origin, structure, functions and
direction?
A. Psychology
B. Criminology
C. Sociology
D. Anthropology

40. The process of reducing or eliminating the desire and opportunity

to commit a crime is known as -
A. law enforcement
B. crime prevention
C. protection of rights
D. order maintenance

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