After reading the text discussion of insanity, do you feel insanity is too often used as a defense? Whatever your feeling, how do you think insanity should be defined, and why?
What will be an ideal response?
* The response should use evidence from the text to support whatever conclusion is made.
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Your textbook contrasts two similar terms, sex and gender. Which of the following research topics involves the study of sex, rather than gender?
a. What do adults think are ideal characteristics for young girls and boys? b. How many weeks after conception do the external genitals of boys and girls develop? c. Do people believe that females should be helped more than males? d. Do young children rate adult women as being more nurturant than adult men?
The story of the Good Samaritan, who rescued a person that he did not know, is about a case of
a. an application of the time-out technique. b. Oedipal morality. c. moral affect. d. altruism.
Clayton has a slightly increased chance of developing schizophrenia because _____.
A. his father was exceedingly stressed before he was born. B. he was an unusually large baby when he was born. C. he was born in the summer. D. his mother had a flu-like illness with fever while she was pregnant with him.
The primacy effect in a serial position curve can be eliminated if
a. subjects rehearse all words equally often, suggesting that the primacy effect is caused by retrieval from STM. b. subjects rehearse all words equally often, suggesting that the primacy effect is caused by retrieval from LTM. c. subjects perform another task for 30 seconds, suggesting that the primacy effect is caused by retrieval from STM. d. subjects perform another task for 30 seconds, suggesting that the primacy effect is caused by retrieval from LTM.