A Japanese-American woman discovered her husband was having an affair and tried to drown both herself and her children. In her defense, she claims she was trying to save her children from the shame her husband had brought on the family, something she sees as a Japanese custom. She and her lawyer are using a(n) ____ defense

a. cultural
b. comparative
c. inquisitorial
d. offensive


a

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a. devotes more attention to cross-cultural assessment issues b. has omitted the casual specifiers associated with identified disorders c. relies on assessment that emphasizes deficits d. has omitted the "behavioral addictions" category

Psychology

Which one of the following predictions does the 'availability' heuristic make?

a. People should estimate there are more words with the letter K in the first position than the third position. b. People should estimate that there are more words with a K in the third position than the first position. c. People should ignore sample size. d. People should consider sample size.

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Imitation has been observed in infants as young as ____________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

People most willing to disobey orders, like the 1/3 involved in the Milgram

study who did refuse to continue, share in common (a) gender; the females refused to deliver shock (b) most key personality traits (c) similar sociopolitical and religious backgrounds (d) nothing predictable

Psychology