In the Late 1940s and Early 1950s, What Did the House

question 55

Multiple Choice

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, what did the House Un-American Activities Committee, Hollywood, and some thirty-nine state legislatures have in common?

• A) They were all revealed to be riddled with communist spies and other subversives.
• B) They all took vigorous stands against the witch hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
• C) They all participated in the crusade to clear Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of charges that they passed secrets to the Soviets.
• D) They all contributed to the anticommunist hysteria of the period and tried to root out subversives in American society.
• E) none of these choices.

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Definitions:

Positive Symptoms

Symptoms of mental disorders that include excess or distortion of normal functions, such as hallucinations or delusions.

Negative Symptoms

In psychology, especially in the context of schizophrenia, these refer to the absence of normal behaviors or feelings, such as social withdrawal or lack of emotion.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Flat Affect

A significant reduction in emotional expressiveness, where a person appears emotionally numb or unresponsive.