The Most Important Factor(s) in Grading Offenses Is

question 5

Multiple Choice

The most important factor(s) in grading offenses is:

• A)the mens rea and the harm done.
• B)the legal duty to act.
• C)the complexity of the crime.
• D)the number of victims and the extent of loss.

Understand the concepts and diagnostic criteria of various personality disorders.

Describe the theoretical approaches to understanding personality disorders.

Identify the prevalence and demographic distribution of personality disorders.

Explain treatment options for different personality disorders.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A process of learning through which two stimuli are habitually paired; the response, initially drawn out by the second stimulus, is eventually evoked by just the first stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that instinctively and automatically induces a response without previously being learned.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is withheld; in biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms.