A 16-Year-Old Boy Is Convicted of Sexually Molesting His 13-Year-Old

question 12

Multiple Choice

A 16-year-old boy is convicted of sexually molesting his 13-year-old neighbor.The judge ultimately decided not to levy the maximum sentence against the boy because of several factors, including his age, his lack of a criminal record, and the fact that he had also been a victim of sexual abuse earlier in his childhood.All of these circumstances reduced the offender's blame.What are these circumstances called?

• A)aggravating circumstances
• B)alleviating circumstances
• C)mitigating circumstances
• D)reducing circumstances

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Definitions:

Retrieval Cue

A stimulus that helps a person recall or recognize stored information.

Interference

A hypothesized process of forgetting in which material is thought to be buried or otherwise displaced by other information but still exists somewhere in a memory store.

Long-term Memory

A type of memory responsible for storing information for extended periods of time, ranging from several minutes to a lifetime, and includes various forms such as episodic and semantic memory.

Code

A system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to be executed by a computer; also, can refer to the act of writing computer programs.