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 competency hearings c. voluntary civil commitment
b. involuntary civil commitment d. criminal commitment
B
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In the United States there are approximately _____ deaths from suicide each year
a. 12,000 b. 22,000 c. 33,000 d. 45,000 e. 58,000
In our stressful modern world,
a. the fight-or-flight automatic reaction is obsolete. b. stress can continue over time and leave one in a state of enduring physiological arousal. c. stress may continue but has little effect. d. we handle most stressors through our fight-or-flight response.
Barbara wanted to know whether Americans bought more American-made cars or more foreign-made cars. She arrived at a conclusion based on the cars her American friends drove. In this scenario, Barbara used _____ to come to a conclusion
A) the anchoring heuristic B) cognitive dissonance C) the availability heuristic D) functional fixedness
If Opal is a gender-schematic child, she
A) seldom views the world in gender-linked terms. B) applies a gender-salience filter to her experiences. C) will play with "gender-inappropriate" toys. D) will play with a toy she likes, whether or not girls typically play with it.