Question 1

According to Lenore Walker, battered women share all of these traits EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  a tendency to accept responsibility for the abuse. 
B)  nontraditional sex role attitudes. 
C)  being socially isolated. 
D)  being increasingly dependent on the abuser.

Question 2

Data indicate that about _____ percent of rapes are committed by strangers.

Accepted Answer

A)  15 
B)  20 
C)  25 
D)  30

Question 3

To be consistent with a diagnosis of PTSD, symptoms must last at least _____ following a trauma.

Accepted Answer

A)  one month 
B)  six months 
C)  one year 
D)  two years

Question 4

Case law and the Criminal Code dictate criteria for the use of a self-defence argument at trial. Which is NOT one of the conditions or standards currently contained or interpreted in the law?

Accepted Answer

A)  The defendant reasonably believed on probable grounds that the force used to repel the danger was necessary. 
B)  The average juror does not need help understanding the actions of battered women. 
C)  Women need not wait until an act of harm is underway before responding with self-defence. 
D)  The defendant had reasonable apprehension of death or grievous bodily harm.

Question 5

Which was NOT a factor in the trial of Nicole Doucet Ryan?

Accepted Answer

A)  The defence attempted to argue duress as she was not planning to kill her husband herself. 
B)  Doucet argued she did not believe police would protect her as her husband was a RCMP. 
C)  The Supreme Court overturned her acquittal saying duress was improperly used at trial. 
D)  Ducet ended up serving 11 years before being paroled from Kingston Penitentiary.

Question 6

Which statement about sexual assault in Canada is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  The term rape was taken out of the Criminal Code in 1983 and replaced with categories of sexual assault. 
B)  Reports of sexual assault dropped from 1983 to 1993 but then started rising again. 
C)  One-third of sexual assaults reported to police result in sexual assault charges. 
D)  Sexual assault has the lowest rate of charges resulting from reports of any violent crime.

Question 7

Which is NOT one of Lenore Walker's recurring phases in the cycle of abuse in a typical violent relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  tension-building 
B)  acute battering 
C)  honeymoon 
D)  contrition

Question 8

Which is NOT one of the three types of assessments that can be used to classify types of batterers according to Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart?

Accepted Answer

A)  frequency of calls to police and support hotlines 
B)  the severity of marital violence 
C)  the generality of violence 
D)  presence of psychopathology and personality disorders

Question 9

In Canada, about _____ percent of sexual assaults are reported to police.

Accepted Answer

A)  10 
B)  18 
C)  25 
D)  36

Question 10

Betty endured abuse throughout most of her 30 years of marriage. During that time, she became less resistant to the attacks and more submissive and resigned to her fate. A term often used for this state is:

Accepted Answer

A)  adaptive symptomology. 
B)  complex dissociation. 
C)  learned helplessness. 
D)  regressed responsiveness.

Question 11

Which statement about the legal classification of abuse-related disorders is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  One of the symptoms of battered woman syndrome is body image distortion or physical complaints. 
B)  A significant impairment in cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour that reflects dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes is called a mental disorder. 
C)  Both battered woman syndrome and rape trauma syndrome were included in the most recent edition of the DSM. 
D)  A cluster of related symptoms leading to dysfunction in the performance of everyday activities is called a syndrome.

Question 12

Which statement about the World Health Organization's 10th version of The International Classification of Diseases is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  It uses gender-neutral terminology but does not recognize abuse in same-sex couples. 
B)  It includes PTSD as a maltreatment syndrome. 
C)  It includes "battered spouse syndrome." 
D)  It includes "effects of abuse of an adult."

Question 13

Explain how BWS testimony has been viewed by the courts in Canada.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Explain how BWS testimony has been viewed...

Question 14

In Boeschen et al.'s five-level model of expert testimony, explaining common victim reactions and general criteria for PTSD or rape trauma would be level:

Accepted Answer

A)  1. 
B)  2. 
C)  3. 
D)  4.

Question 15

Researchers proposing a(n)_____ framework for expert testimony argue that syndrome language should be dropped and that there should be less focus on psychological reactions and more focus on the realities facing an abused woman.

Accepted Answer

A)  human capital 
B)  existential 
C)  defence centered 
D)  social agency

Question 16

Which is NOT one of the findings in Schuller's simulated trials using BWS and control testimony?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jurors who did not hear BWS testimony were more likely to say that the defendant should have pleaded insanity. 
B)  Those who heard BWS testimony were more likely to see the act as manslaughter not murder. 
C)  Jurors who heard a BWS expert testify made more sympathetic statements about the defendant in deliberations. 
D)  Jurors were more lenient in verdicts only when BWS testimony indicated that the defendant fit the syndrome.

Question 17

Which is NOT one of the rape myths discussed by the authors?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rape charges are often filed when women simply regret having had consensual sex. 
B)  The typical rape is committed by someone unknown to the victim. 
C)  It is impossible to rape a woman who is unwilling or physically resists. 
D)  When a woman says she does not want sex, she does not really mean it.

Question 18

Post-traumatic stress disorder was originally formulated to describe the psychological symptoms experienced by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Holocaust survivors. 
B)  children from Russian orphanages. 
C)  Vietnam war veterans. 
D)  miners who survived burial accidents.

Question 19

Describe the symptoms of BWS.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe the symptoms of BWS....

Question 20

Which was NOT described in the text as one of the criticisms of Lenore Walker's research that led to her descriptions of the battered woman?

Accepted Answer

A)  The data was collected in door-to-door canvassing of a limited number of San Francisco neighborhoods. 
B)  Only a minority of the women surveyed had experienced all three stages of the hypothesized cycle of abuse. 
C)  Those who collected the data were aware of the hypotheses, which may have caused experimenter bias. 
D)  There was no systematic comparison of women suffering other forms of trauma or no trauma at all (control).

Exam 12: Battered Women Syndrome and Syndrome Evidence