An attorney says to his client, "If we can convince the judge that when you shot your mother, you either did not know it was a criminal thing to do or could not control your behavior because you had a mental disease or defect(other than antisocial conduct), you should be found not guilty by reason of insanity." What legal standard is the attorney describing?
a. Durham standard
b. American Law Institute Model Penal Code
c. M'Naghten Rule
d. irresistible impulse standard
B
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A. historical analysis B. grounded theory analysis C. interpretative phenomenological analysis D. meta-analysis
Blair listens as Harold tells him about his high grade in philosophy. Blair decides that Harold must be very bright if he scores at the top of the class on his philosophy exams. Blair's attribution for the cause of Harold's high grade is consistent with:
a. a self-serving bias b. a self-fulfilling prophecy c. information integration theory d. the fundamental attribution error
Which of the following individuals would a clinician most likely classify as having a fetish?
a. a man who is aroused by women's large breasts b. a man who likes his wife to wear lacy panties and brassieres c. a man who masturbates while looking at pornography d. a man who cannot reach orgasm unless his wife is wearing a pink garter
Which of the following statements is true about identical twins?
A. Identical twins develop from one fertilized egg. B. Twins are identical mainly due to dizygotic fertilization. C. Identical twins turn out to be vastly different from each other in their personalities, intelligence, illness, and disease histories. D. In the womb, up to 5% of identical twins develop their own placenta.