A victim-precipitated death that occurs when the police are forced to kill a hostage taker is commonly referred to as
A. entrapment.
B. suicide by cop.
C. negligent homicide.
D. none of the above
B
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Individuals with social phobia are likely to __________.
A. be aggressive B. attribute events in their lives to external factors C. have been raised in a permissive environment D. attribute negative life events to internal, global, and stable factors
Celia, who is a college student, has always thought of herself as an environmental activist. Recently, she "inherited" a gas-guzzling car from her parents, which she has been driving around campus. To reduce the cognitive dissonance that she feels from these clashing images of herself, the environmental activist and the gas-guzzling car owner, she might say that her "schedule has become too
hectic to spend time biking or riding the bus and besides it has become too expensive to ride the bus," which illustrates the strategy of a. changing her attitude. b. changing the importance of the dissonant thoughts. c. adding consonant thoughts. d. reducing the amount of her perceived choice.
The brain stem began to evolve 500 million years ago in segmented worms
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Whenever a person has two contradictory cognitions at the same time, a state of _____________ exists
A) groupthink B) justification of effort C) cognitive dissonance D) self determinism