A determination of whether or not an individual is psychologically capable of testifying on his or her own behalf in a court of law refers to
A. the Durham Rule.
B. guilt by reason of insanity.
C. the least restrictive alternative.
D. competency to stand trial.
Answer: D
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According to a study conducted by Harkness and Super (2006), which of the following statements about parental ethnotheories is accurate?
a) American parents hold an ethnotheory about the importance of spending special time with their children. b) Dutch parents hold an ethnotheory about the importance of spending special time with their children. c) French parents hold an ethnotheory of spending family time with their children. d) American parents hold an ethnotheory of spending family time with their children.
If you were to take a contemporary intelligence test, your IQ score would actually be called:
a. interval IQ c. ratio IQ b. nominal IQ d. deviation IQ
A rat is trained to press a lever for a small amount of food. While pressing the lever at a steady rate, the rat is presented with a tone-light stimulus that had been previously paired with foot-shock. When the tone-light stimulus is on, the rat decreases its rate of lever pressing. This decrease is an example of
a. sign tracking. b. suppression. c. conditioned repression. d. unconditioned fear responding.
Which of the following represents a contrast assumption?
a. assuming that novel terms must refer to something that you already know b. assuming that novel terms must refer to unfamiliar objects c. assuming that words refer to whole-objects, and not characteristics of objects d. assuming that similar objects must belong to the same category