Question 1

Violence in families takes place between _______

Accepted Answer

Violence in families can occur in all these relationships, including between spouses, parents and children, elderly and younger family members, and siblings.

Question 2

Gender neutral terms have been used to downplay the fact that ________ is primarily perpetuated by men against women.

Accepted Answer

D

Question 3

Violent physical attacks include ________

Accepted Answer

Violent physical attacks specifically refer to actions that involve physical force intended to cause harm, such as hitting, punching, and slapping.

Question 4

_______ occur(s) when a man forces a woman to perform unwanted sexual acts that violate her sexual integrity.

Accepted Answer

Sexually violent acts occur when a man forces a woman to perform unwanted sexual acts that violate her sexual integrity.

Question 5

The term "________" is defined in Canadian criminal law as the voluntary agreement to engage in an activity.

Accepted Answer

In Canadian criminal law, "consent" is the term used to describe the voluntary agreement to engage in an activity.

Question 6

Abuse can be______

Accepted Answer

Abuse can manifest in various forms, including psychological, verbal, financial, and spiritual, among others.

Question 7

Challenging a woman's memory of events or disturbing her sense of reality by "_______" is another form of psychological abuse.

Accepted Answer

Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where the abuser distorts or denies reality, making the victim doubt their own perceptions and memories.

Question 8

________ involves denying a woman knowledge of, or access to, the family finances.

Accepted Answer

Financial abuse involves denying a woman knowledge of, or access to, the family finances.

Question 9

The "________" comes from an old English law in which a husband was allowed to hit his wife in order to discipline her but he was limited to using a rod or stick that was no longer in diameter than his thumb.

Accepted Answer

The phrase "rule of thumb" is often mistakenly believed to originate from an old English law about wife-beating, but there is no historical evidence supporting this claim. The term actually refers to a rough or approximate method of measuring or doing something.

Question 10

________ data is often collected through survey questionnaires, administered to a representative sample of the population.

Accepted Answer

Quantitative data is typically collected through survey questionnaires, which are designed to gather numerical data from a representative sample of the population.

Question 11

A well-known explanation for the root cause of domestic violence is ________. This theory is based on the assumption that people learn violent and abusive behaviours from their social environment.

Accepted Answer

Social learning theory suggests that individuals learn behaviors, including violence, through observing and imitating others in their social environment.

Question 12

The following statement regarding domestic violence is false: ________

Accepted Answer

Heterosexual girls who witness violence between their parents are more likely to become victims of abuse rather than perpetrators.

Question 13

When individual family members recreate abusive patterns in their own relationships, they are taking part in ________

Accepted Answer

The intergenerational transmission of violence refers to the phenomenon where abusive behaviors and patterns are passed down from one generation to the next within families.

Question 14

After an act of violence has been committed against the wife (e.g. the husband kicked or hit her), the husband will feel badly and apologize for what he has done. He promises that he will never hurt her again and brings her gifts of jewelry and flowers. This post-violence phase is typically known as the ________ phase.

Accepted Answer

This phase is known as the "honeymoon" phase, where the abuser may show remorse and affection, promising change to maintain the relationship.

Question 15

Proponents of _______ theory claim that domestic violence is primarily perpetrated by individuals who have psychological problems, negative personality characteristics, or forms of mental illness that cause them to act violently.

Accepted Answer

Proponents of psychiatric and personality theories argue that domestic violence is often committed by individuals with psychological issues or negative personality traits that lead to violent behavior.

Question 16

Since 1993, ________ rates for domestic violence in Canada have been determined using a combination of data from Statistics Canada's General Social Survey on Victimization and crime data collected by police.

Accepted Answer

Prevalence rates refer to the proportion of a population found to have a condition, which in this context is domestic violence, as determined by survey and police data.

Question 17

A(n) ________ is a representative subset of the population. It is carefully selected to mirror the diversity of population so that results of statistical analysis can be used to predict characteristics or behaviours in the general population.

Accepted Answer

A sample is a representative subset of the population, selected to reflect the diversity of the population, allowing for statistical analysis to predict characteristics or behaviors in the general population.

Question 18

The General Social Survey on Victimization includes questions about different forms of crime including all of the following except ________

Accepted Answer

The General Social Survey on Victimization typically includes non-fatal crimes such as assault, break-ins, theft, and vandalism, but not homicide, as it focuses on crimes that individuals can report experiencing directly.

Question 19

The 1999 General Social Survey data indicate that _______ of women and _______ of men had experienced physical or sexual violence in a current or past relationship in the five years prior to the survey.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The 1999 General Social Survey data indicate...

Question 20

In 2014, analysis of the General Social Survey data indicated a significant decline since 1999 in the rate of physical and sexual violence between spouses and/or common law partners to _______ for both men and women.

Accepted Answer

The analysis of the General Social Survey data in 2014 showed that the rate of physical and sexual violence between spouses and/or common law partners had declined to 4 per cent for both men and women.

Quiz 14: Violence in Families