Chemical castration, when used with sexual offenders, is designed to ____.
a. reduce psychological desire
b. decrease sex drive and sexual activity
c. induce anxiety when the individual sees a potential victim
d. make the sex offender physically incapable of having an erection
Question 2Surgical castration of sexual offenders ____.
a. is the most common form of treatment in the United States
b. uses electric shock to pair arousal with deviant stimuli
c. in Europe shows low rates of relapse
d. works because it makes the man unable to have intercourse
Question 3One step used in behavior therapy for treating pedophiles and rapists involves the ____.
a. need to relax when deviant stimuli are presented
b. focus on cultural bias in favor of the independent male
c. individual's underlying needs for power and control
d. extinction of sexual responses to deviant stimuli
Question 4Colin was convicted of rape. He is receiving the most common form of treatment that society provides rapists, which is ____.
a. aversive behavioral treatment
b. imprisonment without treatment
c. chemical castration with Depo-Provera
d. psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Question 5As an adolescent, Marla was in a brief incestuous relationship with her brother. Her sister Rhonda was in a long-term incestuous relationship with their father. We can expect that ____.
a. Rhonda was more psychologically damaged than Marla
b. Rhonda's incestuous relationship was more mutually consensual than Marla's
c. Marla was more psychologically damaged than Rhonda
d. there were few negative psychological effects for either woman