After a crime has been committed, a member of the investigating team sometimes sketches a general psychological description of the most likely type of suspect. Creating this description is called

A. psychological description analysis.
B. criminal profiling.
C. criminal investigative analysis.
D. both B and C


D

Psychology

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What has research shown concerning residential programs, such as Achievement Place?

a. long-term reductions in aggression b. few results while teens are still in the group home c. lower rates of recidivism once teens leave the program d. effective results only while teens are living in the group home

Psychology

Five preschool children decided to help each other build a fort with the items that were available to them. Each child took it upon her- or himself to find objects in the classroom that could be assembled to build a fort. This is an example of __________.

A. associative play B. parallel play C. functional play D. onlooker play

Psychology

Allison enters a summer program for high school students who are gifted in math. Of the 40 students, she is one of five girls. Her success in the program is likely to

A) be greater because she wants to prove that girls can handle it. B) depend on making friends with the smartest boys. C) suffer because of the effect of stereotype threat. D) be unaffected by the unbalanced male-female ratio.

Psychology

Freud's structural hypothesis proposes that the personality is divided into __________ mental entities.

A. two B. three C. four D. five

Psychology