The Ford Motor Credit Co v. Sheehan (1979) concerned a debt collector who was trying to collect money for a debt. He pretended to be a hospital employee and told the debtor's mother that her grandchildren had been seriously injured in an accident and he needed to find the debtor to inform him of this. The court determined that the debt collector's behavior was
A. extreme and outrageous conduct intended to cause distress.
B. negligent behavior intended to cause distress.
C. within the zone of danger.
D. slander.
A
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a. a sentence in which the speaker has made a speech error, and the listener fails to detect this error. b. an interchange between two or more people, in which one person tries to convince the listener or listeners. c. a series of sentences that describes a sequence of events, organized in terms of the date of occurrence. d. language units that are more than a sentence in length.
Excessive school absence and ____ are two predictors of school dropout
a. substance abuse c. being male b. reading below grade level d. poor problem-solving ability
What approach to psychology uses diagrams to symbolize and explain the relationships of variables such as learning, motivation, and tension on behavior?
a. topological psychology c. analytic psychology b. cognitive mapping d. cognitive psychology
There are many advantages to using experiments; however, a major drawback is
a. they do not help to establish a causal relationship. b. they tend to be low on internal validity. c. the need to ensure psychological realism to maintain external validity. d. they do not involve random assignment.