A radio commercial says "there are just 42 sounds in the English language, called

phonics." What they should call those sounds is

(a) morphemes (b) features (c) heuristics (d) phonemes (e) algorithms


D

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After John W. Hinckley, Jr. was acquitted of attempting to assassinate President Reagan on the basis of his plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity," ____

a. Congress passed the Insanity Reform Act of 1984, which based the definition of insanity on the individual's ability to understand his or her actions b. the American Law Institute wrote the Model Penal Code, which shifted the burden of determining criminal responsibility from experts to the jury c. the American Law Institute amended its Model Penal Code to include the concept of diminished capacity d. the federal courts amended the insanity laws to place a greater burden on the defendant to prove insanity in assassination cases that involve political figures

Psychology

Walter Cannon and other critics of the James-Lange theory of emotion based their attacks on all of the following EXCEPT that

a. autonomic nervous system responses happen too slowly to be involved in emotional responses. b. animals continue to respond emotionally after their viscera are separated from the central nervous system. c. visceral activity is irrelevant for emotional experience. d. there is independence of bodily and psychological responses when an emotion is experienced.

Psychology

Karen has always felt that if she looks at the back of a person's head, she can cause that person to turn around and look at her. This is an example of ________ thinking

a) counterfactual b) magical c) optimist d) rational

Psychology

The symptoms of conversion disorder usually come on ______in a ______ situation

a. gradually, calm c. suddenly, stressful b. suddenly, calm d. gradually, stressful

Psychology