A Few States Have Allowed a Male to Defend Against

question 62

True/False

A few states have allowed a male to defend against a charge of statutory rape on the basis that he was mistaken about a female's age, but most hold a male defendant strictly liable.

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Definitions:

Retroactive Interference

A phenomenon where newly acquired information interferes with the retrieval of older information.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older memories interfere with the recall of newer memories, often affecting the learning process.

Cue-dependent Forgetting

A phenomenon where information is not remembered unless the context present at encoding is also present at recall.

Decay

The gradual decline in the ability to retrieve and maintain information over time, often used to describe the fading of memory.