Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper,on Which of the Following Issues

question 71

Multiple Choice

Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper,on which of the following issues was a free vote held within Parliament,as a proxy for societal reaction?

• A)toughening the Youth Criminal Justice Act
• B)decriminalization of marijuana
• C)same-sex marriage
• D)abortion
• E)free votes were held on both same-sex marriage and the decriminalization of marijuana

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The difficulty in learning new information because of the interference of existing knowledge.

Misinformation Effect

A phenomenon in which people's recollections of events can be distorted by exposure to incorrect or misleading information afterward.

Loftus and Palmer

Researchers who conducted seminal studies on the misinformation effect, demonstrating how post-event information can alter a person's memory of an event.

Vividly Descriptive Word

A term or phrase used to convey a strong, clear, and detailed image of a person, scene, or event.