The purpose of such new verdicts as "guilty, but mentally ill" and "culpable and mentally disabled" is to ____
a. increase the courts' awareness that mentally ill criminals are not responsible for their actions
b. reduce the influence of mental health professionals in trials
c. separate the issue of mental illness from individual responsibility for their actions
d. eliminate the idea of personal responsibility from the law
C
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a. only in infant rats b. only in adolescent rats c. only in mature rats d. in rats of any age
In various traditional cultures males live in ____ and women live in____after marriage:
A. Woman's family home, in their family home B. In their family home, new husband's home C. New wife's home, in their family home D. A new home, new husband's home
A psychologist finds that most of the juvenile delinquents at
the facility where he counsels have parents who are smokers. If he concludes that parental smoking is the reason for these teens' behavior and poor choices, then he has a. made a sound conclusion based on scientific observation. b. confused correlation and causation. c. based his conclusion on unreliable sources of information. d. confused observation and inference.
Which of the Big Five traits is associated with negative emotions such as worry and anger?
a. neuroticism b. agreeableness c. extraversion d. openness to experience