Why was the APA's Amicus brief in Ake v. Oklahoma unusual?
A. The Supreme Court refused to accept the brief.
B. A brief was submitted supporting each side.
C. Most of the arguments were regarding constitutional issues.
D. The brief was incongruent with the prevailing conclusions from research.
C
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a) mania b) obsession c) compulsion d) phobia
You go to the on-line grade book to check out your grade on the last test. The grade is a 60 . You tell yourself this has to be a mistake. The teacher must have recorded someone else's grade or graded your test with the wrong answer key. Which defense mechanism are you using?
a. reaction formation b. repression c. denial d. projection
Around ________ of adolescent boys and ____ percent of adolescent girls have had at least one same-sex sexual encounter
a) 5 %; 15 % b) 20 – 25 %; 10 % c) 30 – 40 %; 20 % d) 10 – 15 %; 25 %
When conducting a police line-up, it is best to have all the distractors look like the person witnesses described and also to warn the witnesses that the suspect may not be present in the line-up. These steps will reduce the occurrence of
a. false positives.
b. proactive interference.
c. the serial position effect.
d. memory consolidation.