Among the changes to the M'Naghten Rule, in 1929 the District of Columbia added
A) the provision for a "public defender" for persons with psychiatric disorders.
B) an exclusionary rule for medical illnesses with psychiatric symptoms.
C) an "irresistible impulse" test demonstrating a lack of volition.
D) a mandatory sanity hearing within 72 hours of an involuntary commitment.
C
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a. cognitive defusion b. cognitive association c. cognitive process d. cognitive skill
A manager is about to make a decision regarding work schedules. He has been with the company for 20 years and has all of the information needed to make the decision. Though work schedules are a touchy issue, the manager is well thought of by his employees. How should he make the decision?
a. Make the decision himself b. Ask for employee input and then decide c. Have his employees make the decision d. Give the employees options and let them vote
Although sex is an important part of people's lives, for many years, discussion of sexual topics was taboo. In the recent history of psychology, who first made sex an appropriate sexual topic for discussion?
a. Alfred Kinsey, when he published his research findings about human sexual practices b. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, when they published their findings on the human sexual response c. Sigmund Freud, when he made the libido an important part of his psychoanalytic theory d. Helen Singer Kaplan, when she wrote about desire and sexual readiness
The autonomic nervous system allows us to ____
a. walk and talk b. ?remember important events c. ?reason logically about difficult concepts d. ?breath without having to think about it