In United States v. Scheffer (1998), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of
A. expert testimony regarding criminal profiling.
B. a confession elicited under minor duress.
C. a confession elicited under moderate, but not major duress.
D. a military rule of evidence which declares that polygraph results and opinions shall not be admitted into evidence.
D
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
For a given set of data the covariance between X and Y is .80. The standard deviation of X is 2.0, and the standard deviation of Y is 3.0. The resulting correlation is closest to
a. .00 b. .15 c. .80 d. -.30
A factorial design has two levels of factor A and three levels of factor B with six participants in each condition. The F-ratio for factor B would have _____ degrees of freedom
a. 1, 35 b. 1, 30 c. 2, 35 d. 2, 30
Human infants and their caregivers have evolved in ways that predispose them to respond favorably to each other and establish intimate bonds. This is a primary tenant of ____ theory
a. Bowlby's attachment b. Piaget's cognitive c. Erikson's psychosocial d. Freud's psychosexual