Mary was caught gambling and smoking marijuana. She argues that her actions were only affecting her and not harming others because she was engaging in __________, but she served jail time anyway because the state argued that it has a right to uphold the morals of its citizens who are opposed to Mary’s activities
A) a victimless crime
B) secondary deviance
C) organized crime
D) white-collar crime
Answer: A
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a. understood b. recorded in the minutes of their annual meetings c. set down in writing in the community guidebook d. printed on handbills distributed to every member of the community
The activation of an automatic, unconscious stereotype is known as
a. implicit social beliefs. b. implicit stereotyping. c. implicit attributions. d. explicit stereotyping.
Which of the following is a weakness of the marriage studies carried out by the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley?
a. Longitudinal studies are not rich in data. b. The study did not include observational data. c. Too many couples dropped out of the study. d. The research on older couples is outdated.
Solomon Asch conducted a conformity experiment in which respondents were presented with lines of varying lengths and asked to select the line that most closely matched a separate line
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