In the Wake of the Trial of John Hinckley, Jr

question 21

Multiple Choice

In the wake of the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., the U.S. Congress enacted the Insanity Defense Reform Act (IDRA) in 1984. It changed the existing insanity defense, ____________.

• A)modifying the "volitional" prong and retaining the "cognitive" prong
• B)eliminating the "cognitive" prong and modifying the "volitional" prong
• C)eliminating the "volitional" prong and retaining the "cognitive" prong
• D)eliminating the "cognitive" prong and retaining the "volitional" prong

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Definitions:

Flat Affect

A severe reduction in emotional expressiveness, where someone shows minimal facial expression or voice tone changes.

Hallucination

A perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception, such as seeing, hearing, or feeling something that isn't there.

Auditory

Related to the sense of hearing or the perception of sound.

Common Mode

A term used in electrical engineering to refer to a situation where two or more parts of a system experience the same fluctuations or interference.