Amicus curiae means
A. let the decision stand.
B. the sentence should be equivalent to the crime.
C. friend of the court.
D. the rights of defendants.
C
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A. Down syndrome B. Parkinson's disease C. fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) D. acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Hippocrates believed that abnormal behavior resulted from ______
a. religious causes such as angry gods b. natural causes such as balance of body fluids c. spiritual causes such as trapped evil spirits. d. social causes such as poverty and poor access to education
Chapter 13 discussed research about whether 12- to 18-month-old children can learn language by watching a DVD. The DVD shows a household object, while a voiceover says the object's name
According to the results, children learned significantly more words a. if the children watched the video by themselves, compared to a control group that had no video. b. if the parent taught the child the words, compared to the child learning the words from the video. c. if the parent watched the video and interacted with the child, compared to the child just watching the video. d. if the child was in the control group, without any video or teaching; their vocabulary actually increased as much as when children's parents taught them the words.
Patterns of waves that occur in the brain following its stimulation are called:
a. potential waves b. evoked potentials c. electrical instincts d. perpetual arousal