Ch11 Responses To Intimate Violence Test Questions & Answers - Assessment Bank | Violence in Intimate Relationships 2e by Miller Perrin by Cindy L. Miller Perrin. DOCX document preview.
Test Bank
Chapter 11: Societal Responses to Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships: Some Concluding Thoughts
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is NOT a common way claims makers draw attention to social problems?
a. alarmist language
b. dire predictions
c. use complicated science as proof
d. call for immediate action
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Child abuse could not be a social problem until ______ was(were) discovered.
a. childhood
b. innocence
c. family ties
d. state intervention
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. IPV, sexual assault, and marital rape could not be recognized as social problems until ______ was(were) achieved.
a. women’s shelters
b. gender equality
c. women’s rights
d. suffrage
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. If viewed historically, VMIR as a social problem is ______.
a. getting better
b. getting worse
c. the same over time
d. cannot determine the type of change over time
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The number of child abuse incidents report to CPS has ______ over the past 25 years.
a. increased
b. decreased
c. stayed the same
d. cannot determine the type of change
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Between 1990 and 2013, rates of substantiated child neglect declined by ______.
a. 13%
b. 37%
c. 55%
d. 64%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Between 1990 and 2013, rates of substantiated child physical abuse declined by ______.
a. 13%
b. 37%
c. 55%
d. 64%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Between 1990 and 2013, rates of substantiated child sexual abuse declined by ______.
a. 13%
b. 37%
c. 55%
d. 64%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. What was the first survey to examine trends in VMIR over time using the same questions?
a. National Incidence Study
b. Family Violence Survey
c. Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire
d. National Crime Victimization Survey
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Between 1975 and 1985, the Family Violence Survey found that rates of both child physical abuse and marital violence ______.
a. increased
b. decreased
c. stayed the same
d. cannot determine the type of change
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Which of the following has the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence NOT found to have decreased?
a. child maltreatment
b. sexual child abuse
c. dating violence
d. sexual assault
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. According to NCVS data, how much have IPV rates declined?
a. 25%
b. 35%
c. 50%
d. 60%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. According to NCVS data, crimes against which group have decreased?
a. people with disabilities
b. LGBTQ people
c. the elderly
d. children
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. For which group have IPV rates declined by 60%, according to NCVS data?
a. men
b. women
c. both men and women
d. cannot determine
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. What form of violence do NIS data suggest has increased?
a. child physical abuse
b. child sexual abuse
c. child neglect
d. child psychological maltreatment
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. According to NIS data, how much have rates of CPA decreased over 12 years?
a. 13%
b. 29%
c. 35%
d. 48%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. At what level are prevention and intervention programs provided?
a. local
b. state
c. federal
d. international
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. In the highly publicized cases where the system fails victims, what element is highlighted for the failure?
a. tight budgets
b. high caseloads
c. caseworker failure
d. faulty laws
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. In the case of the death of two-year-old Alfredo Montez, his case worker had a caseload of 50 children and was only paid ______.
a. $20,000
b. $28,000
c. $34,000
d. $40,000
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. On average, a firefighter in California makes ______ more than a social worker.
a. $5,000
b. $10,000
c. $15,000
d. $20,000
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Why is spanking a form of violence?
a. It causes harm.
b. It has the intention of hurting another.
c. It is culturally framed as violence.
d. It is legally violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. How many countries prohibit corporal punishment in the home?
a. 12
b. 23
c. 38
d. 58
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. What country was the first to prohibit corporal punishment in the home?
a. United States
b. Sweden
c. South Africa
d. Peru
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. In what year did corporal punishment in the home first become prohibited in a country?
a. 1969
b. 1979
c. 1989
d. 1999
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. What is the only member of the UN yet to ratify its Convention on the Rights of the Child?
a. Germany
b. China
c. France
d. United States
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Why has the United States not ratified the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child?
a. It does not agree with it.
b. It conflicts with U.S. law.
c. It undermines the rights of the parent.
d. It is because of family privacy.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. After talking, taking away video games, grounding, restricting phone and Internet access, and sending to bed without dinner, Tim’s parents turn to spanking when he would not stop saying nasty things to his sister. What spanking-supporting myth is this an example of?
a. Spanking is harmless.
b. Spanking is needed as a last resort.
c. Parents cannot stop without training.
d. Parents only spank for nasty problems.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. When children become teenagers, what form of corporal punishment is more likely?
a. spanking
b. slap to the face
c. punch
d. broken bone
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. According to Strauss, what message does spanking send to children?
a. Violence is acceptable.
b. They have broken a rule.
c. When one is angry, violence is justified.
d. They are unloved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. What percentage of children between the ages of 2 and 9 report sibling violence?
a. 15%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 75%
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. What contributes to the cultural scaffolding of rape?
a. sexual passivity norms for women
b. flawed laws
c. university protocol
d. male aggression
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. What do locker-room talk and sibling violence have in common?
a. Both actions are illegal.
b. Both constitute child abuse.
c. Both exhibit how violence is tolerated.
d. They do not have anything in common.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Some research shows that ______ contribute(s) to violence.
a. spanking
b. playing cops and robbers
c. violent media
d. comics
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Media and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. What kind of media are shown to contribute to higher rates of sexual victimization?
a. abusive sexual media
b. nonabusive sexual media
c. physically violent media
d. non-physically violent media
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Media and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. What did the U.S. Supreme Court use in a ruling allowing minors to purchase violent video games?
a. First Amendment
b. Second Amendment
c. Fifth Amendment
d. Seventh Amendment
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Media and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
36. In what area does the United States not have age restrictions?
a. voting
b. sexually explicit content
c. violent content
d. alcohol consumption
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Media and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. How many copies did Grand Theft Auto sell in its first 24 hours?
a. 5 million
b. 7 million
c. 11 million
d. 15 million
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Media and Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. Opportunity theory shifts focus away from ______ toward opportunities for crime to occur.
a. cultural norms
b. motivated offenders
c. structural constraints
d. victims
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Minimize Opportunity
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. You leave your home for a week to go on vacation. To make it seem like you are home, you set a light timer in your home. What is this an example of?
a. rational action theory
b. opportunity theory
c. deviant behavior theory
d. victim blaming
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Minimize Opportunity
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. What does opportunity theory focus on?
a. motivated offenders
b. opportunities for crime
c. victim’s actions
d. structural constraints
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Minimize Opportunity
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. What assumption does opportunity theory begin with?
a. Most people are good.
b. We can all stop crime.
c. Anyone is capable of crime.
d. Most people are offenders.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. What area of VMIR has evolved most quickly and dramatically?
a. child sexual abuse
b. elderly abuse
c. sexual assault and rape
d. intimate partner violence
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. According to Cermele and McCaughey (2015), what programs are missing in the Not Alone report?
a. sexual assault education programs
b. bullying prevention programs
c. bystander intervention programs
d. self-defense training
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Which of the following is NOT an effective way to intervene in violent situations?
a. hostile confrontation
b. alerting the authorities
c. calmly intervene
d. be friendly
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ring the Bell
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. Which of the following is the best practice when intervening in violent situations?
a. physically stop the violence
b. explain why what they are doing is morally wrong
c. withhold judgment
d. draw as much attention to the situation as possible
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ring the Bell
Difficulty Level: Medium
46. Bullying prevention programs have been found to ______ bystander intervention.
a. increase
b. decrease
c. not effect
d. cannot determine the effect on
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Pay attention and Step Up
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. What effect do bystander intervention programs have?
a. no effect
b. decrease acts of violence
c. increase confidence in ability to intervene
d. decrease physical intervention
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Pay attention and Step Up
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. What do the most widely discussed bystander intervention programs focus on?
a. child abuse
b. bullying
c. IPV
d. sexual assault on college campuses
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Pay attention and Step Up
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. What proportion of Americans volunteered with an organization in 2015?
a. 1/2
b. 1/3
c. 1/4
d. 1/5
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Get Involved
Difficulty Level: Medium
50. Since 1960, volunteerism in the United States has ______.
a. increased
b. decreased
c. stayed the same
d. cannot determine a change
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Get Involved
Difficulty Level: Medium
51. What movement is an example of a decline of VMIR and improvement for its victims?
a. YouToo
b. MeToo
c. Black Lives Matter
d. Justice and Equality for All
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Easy
52. According to the text, we can help protect vulnerable populations and reduce victimization. Where is the best place to start?
a. Intervene when you see someone being victimized in public.
b. Taking a stand against mass media that glorifies violence.
c. Volunteering.
d. Donating money.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Chapter Summary
Difficulty Level: Medium
53. Research suggests that rape bystander intervention programs impact participants’ attitudes toward ______, but there is little indication that participants are more likely to actually intervene.
a. willingness to intervene
b. ability to report
c. victims
d. perpetrators
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pay Attention and Step Up
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. Women, children, and the elderly are still more likely to be victimized in their own homes than in the streets.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!| Chapter Summary
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. There is large variation in the amount of resources that counties commit to VMIR.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. All people in society can take a stand against culturally accepted violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Take a Stand Against Culturally Accepted Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Theoretically, violence begets violence.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Violence in the home often mirrors violence in society.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Research shows that spanking causes more good than harm.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Parents have protected rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Spanking or hitting sharply decreases when children become teenagers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Research shows that spanking is an effective disciplinary method.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Sibling abuse declines with age.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Normative Violence
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. In terms of sexual assault prevention, bystander intervention programs are more effective than self-defense training.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. According to opportunity theory, we should only assume those who are most at-risk are those who are likely to commit crimes.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. How can we conclude that rates of child abuse are declining?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What helps to confirm the decline in VMIR rates shown in surveys?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: VMIR Rates Are Declining!
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. What factors can deter those who want to make a difference?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: What Do We Value?
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. What are five ways a person can help stop VMIR?
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What Can We Do?
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What are three myths that perpetuate corporal punishment?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment
Difficulty Level: Hard
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