Darley and his colleagues investigated how people's general thoughts about punishment differed from that found in the Model Penal Code. They found that generally
A. people did not feel that the intent to do a crime was the same as actually doing the crime
B. when a person had taken only preliminary action toward committing a crime, few respondents thought the prospective perpetrator was guilty.
C. when a person had taken action described as reaching "the point of dangerous proximity to the crime," respondents thought that punishmentshould be less severe than that given to those who had completed thecrime.
D. all of the above
D
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According to the text, the legal concept of mens rea generally refers to
A. a "guilty mind." B. criminal intent. C. one's mental state. D. all of these are correct
One difference between a psychopath and a person with antisocial personality disorder is that ________ are used in diagnosing the psychopath, but ________ are used to diagnose antisocial personality disorder.
A. personality traits; observable behaviors B. observable behaviors; personality traits C. clinical judgments; objective test scores D. medical criteria; psychological assessments
Which one of the following is TRUE when dealing with skewed distributions?
a. The median and the mode would be more informative than the mean. b. The mode and the mean would be a more informative than the median. c. The mean would be more informative than the mode and the median. d. The median would be more informative than the mean and the mode.
What is the heritability of the trait of hair color among the black-haired Inuit?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 50 d. 100 e. 0.50