In the film Minority Report, people were arrested and sentenced based on predictions that they were going to commit a specific crime at some future date, even though no crime had yet been committed. This scenario is similar to what type of proceeding that mental patients experience in the United States today?
a. involuntary treatment
b. involuntary civil commitment
c. voluntary civil commitment
d. criminal commitment
b
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In the long run, Watson's behaviorism ____.?
a. ?supplanted structuralism, pragmatism, and functionalism b. ?supplanted structuralism but has continued to evolve alongside functionalism c. ?has continually interacted with functionalism, borrowing some concepts while criticizing others d. ?supplanted structuralism and absorbed pragmatism and functionalism e. ?was absorbed into the mainstream of psychology and thereby lost its distinctiveness and revolutionary spirit and initiative
According to the James-Lange theory, experiencing emotion starts with:
A. changes in facial muscles B. a show of observable behavior C. the brain interpreting stimulus D. physiological changes
Both research participant bias and research bias can be controlled by
a. randomly selected one's participants. b. using a single-blind experiment. c. using a double-blind experiment. d. randomly assigning participants to the experimental and control groups.
The new gene editing technique, ______ can be used to disable genes, delete genes, or introduce a new gene at a specific location.
A. viral vectors B. knockouts C. CRISPR D. antisense RNA