The last case of the day involves a 16-year-old high school dropout who was convicted of auto theft. He had no prior record and says that he dropped out of high school to help his family but has not been able to find work. You are convinced that he only stole the car out of economic need. You hand down a sentence consisting of probation, with a condition of attending job training. Your goal is to help the offender improve his chances at landing a job, which should help keep him away from crime. This decision reflects the ________________ ethic.
A. just deserts
B. expiation
C. treatment
D. social contract
Answer: C
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services. a. 13 b. 31 c. 57 d. 90
A baby is in its crib while a swarm of relatives hovers, calling the baby's name, and making cooing sounds. There is a radio playing in the background and sounds emanate from the television in the living room. All the while, the baby's mother is trying to get the baby's attention to get ready for its feeding. In all this hubbub the baby is most likely to attend to the mother's face and voice. What is the baby's behavior an example of?
A. ambient storage B. delayed retrieval C. selective encoding D. recursive automatization
Evolutionary degeneracy theory attributed the intellectual and social problems of children with intellectual disability to ____
a. cold parenting b. regression to an earlier period in the development of humankind c. degeneration of societal values d. genetic abnormalities
Motherese is also known as ____ speech
a. private b. inner c. telegraphic d. infant-directed