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A two-word phrase that describes when a psychologist is in one professional role with a person and, at the same time, is in another role with that same person.

What is multiple roles or multiple relationships? 

100

This president was watching a play in Ford's theater here in the district when shot by his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

It was in this USSC case that the justices established that waiver of one's right to remain silent and avoid self-incrimination must be "knowing, voluntary, and intelligent."

What is Miranda v. Arizona?

100

The city in which next year's Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology will take place. 

What is Portland, Oregon?

100

The psychology professor who was perhaps best known for the experiment he carried out in the basement of a building at Stanford University, where he randomly assigned college students and members of the community to serve as either jailers or inmates.

Who is Phillip Zimbardo?

200

One of the three exceptions to the general EPPCC requirement to obtain informed consent when assessing persons.

What is when testing is mandated by law or governmental regulations; informed consent is implied because testing is conducted as a routine educational, institutional, or organizational activity; or the purpose of the testing is to evaluate decisional capacity.

200

The young actress whose affections John Hinckley, Ronald Reagan's attempted assassin, sought.

Who is Jodi Foster?

200

Some commentators have offered that the USSC's decision in this case has the potential to put psychologists in a bind with respect to multiple relationships given the justices' commentary that defendants facing the death penalty are entitled to assistance of a mental health expert who might both examine them and provide consultative assistance to their attorneys.

What is Ake v. Oklahoma? 

200

The American Psychiatric Association rule that “[I]t is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement” is better known by this title, which references the US presidential candidate whose mental state a large number of psychiatrists opined about in a poll published in a weekly US magazine in 1964.

What is the "Goldwater Rule"?

200

This psychologist's groundbreaking work on eyewitness identification and false memories is what most likely led her to be the highest ranked female in an APA survey of the most influential psychologists.

Who is Elizabeth Loftus?

300

One of the four exceptions to confidentiality cited in the EPPCC.

What is to protect the client or others, facilitate treatment, obtain consultation, or obtain payment?

300

The name of the physician who treated John Wilkes Booth for the leg he broke in his attempt to assassinate President Lincoln.

Who is Samuel Mudd?

300

According to this USSC case, the Constitution requires that, in order to be considered competent to be executed, the condemned person must have both a rational and factual understanding of why they are being put to death and that they are being put to death.  

What is Panetti v. Quarterman?

300

In 2005 Hare and Neumann offered a tweak of the established two-factor model of the PCL-R, proposing still two factors, each of which are comprised of this many facets. 

What is 2?

300

This prolific serial killer complained that, while enrolled at Harvard University, he was subjected to abusive psychology experiments that were carried out by Henry Murray, developer of the TAT. 

Who is Ted Kaczynski?

400

One of the two conditions cited in the EPPCC that preclude psychologists from bartering for their services.

What is if the bartering is clinically contraindicated or the resulting arrangement is exploitative? 

400

Bet you $20 you cannot identify the US president who survived an 1835 assassination attempt that took place just across town, on the steps of the US Capitol.

Who is Andrew Jackson?

400

It was this case in which the USSC ruled that the Constitution does not obligate states to provide an insanity defense.

What is Kahler v. Kansas?

400

In this chilling 1995 murder mystery, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are newly-paired detectives desperate to capture a terribly disturbed serial killer whose murders of six men reference the Seven Deadly Sins.  Strap yourselves in for the controversial ending.  

What is "Se7en"?

400

The Canadian psychologist whose work with criminal offenders was referenced in an episode of "The Sopranos."

Who is Robert Hare?

500

The one exception to the EPPCC requirement that psychologists use assessment methods that are appropriate to an individual's language preference and competence.

What is when the use of an alternative language is relevant to the assessment issue(s)?

500

This president survived an 1881 assassination attempt only to die 80 days later, likely as a result of infection that was exacerbated by his physicians, whose ignorance of germ theory resulted in them repeatedly probing his gunshot wound with their unwashed hands.

Who is James Garfield?

500

In this aptly (or ironically) named USSC case, the justices ruled that laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional.

What is Loving v. Virgina?

500

The title of the controversial 1967 black and white documentary that chronicled day-to-day life in this forensic hospital located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

What is "Titicutt Follies"?

500

This Stanford psychology professor and board-certified forensic psychologist made a name for himself by publishing "On Being Sane in Insane Places," in which he described directing eight perfectly healthy people to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals by only complaining of auditory hallucinations, and then reporting no other symptoms after their admissions.

Who is David Rosenhan?