Battery Requires an Intentional, Unwanted Touching; Assault Requires That the Victim

question 8

True/False

Battery requires an intentional, unwanted touching; assault requires that the victim experience fear or apprehension regarding an imminent assault.

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Definitions:

Congruent

In harmony or agreement; matching in character or kind.

Base-Rate Information

Pallid, factual, statistical information about an entire class of events.

Paired Distinctiveness

Illusory correlation in which items are seen as belonging together because they share some unusual feature.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive short-cut in which the frequency or likelihood of an event is based on how quickly instances or associations come to mind.