What is often filed on appeal of a lawsuit that offers supplemental legal arguments in an attempt to influence the reasoning of the court?
a. Third-party opinion
b. Interest-group brief
c. Dissenting opinion
d. Amicus curiae brief
d
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A. California B. Florida C. Montana D. Colorado
Which of the following explains why some people have suggested reducing our use of coal and oil?
a. Oil and coal are targets for terrorists. b. Oil and coal are less efficient than solar power. c. Oil and coal create greenhouse gases. d. Oil and coal extraction is costly.
Which of the following is not true of charter schools? a. Charter schools are public schools set up to have a unique academic interest
b. Proponents argue that charter schools provide competition that will encourage standard public schools to improve their performance. c. Charter schools are another type of private, tuition-based school. d. Approximately one-third of charter schools have failed during their fifteen-year history. e. Charter schools have met with mixed success.
Both social cognition and schema theory view individuals as _________ meaning the minds of individuals are limited in their capacity to process information, so they tend to rely on schemas, shortcuts, or simplifications
a. cognitive misers c. unreliant on shortcuts b. cognitively inconsistent d. unable to stereotype