In the United States and Britain, how does a court determine whether someone accused of a crime is not guilty by reason of insanity?
What will be an ideal response?
According to the M'Naghten rule(or variants on it), a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if at the time of the crime the person was so seriously mentally impaired as not to know what he or she was doing. Having a DSM diagnosis is not enough, and neither is the fact of committing a bizarre crime.
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A. Levels of intelligence B. Economic background C. Childhood industriousness D. Genetic makeup
Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that
A. imagery and perception are two different phenomena. B. imagery and perception can interact with one another. C. there are large individual differences in people's ability to create visual images. D. creating a visual image can interfere with a perceptual judgment task.
In a 10-mile cross-country race, all runners are randomly assigned an identification number. These numbers represent a(n) _________
a. nominal scale c. interval scale b. ratio scale d. ordinal scale
According to the chapter Aggression Breeds Aggressionabout the catharsis hypothesis, in the groups of
participants who were not angered by the essay grading, the anti-catharsis and the pro-catharsis messages (a) played no significant role (b) had a higher impact (c) were significant in the predicted directions (d) induced relaxation