If You Have Committed a Crime and Have Used a Defence

question 17

Multiple Choice

If you have committed a crime and have used a defence of duress,you were:

• A) threatened with death or grievous bodily harm.
• B) forced to act based on forces of nature or emergency.
• C) not in control of your mental state
• D) extremely provoked into retaliation and lost self control

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Definitions:

Unconscious Strategies

Psychological mechanisms or processes that operate without the individual's conscious awareness to handle thoughts or feelings.

Primary Appraisal

The initial evaluation process where an individual assesses the significance of a stressor as irrelevant, benign-positive, or stressful.

Psychological Review

An academic journal that publishes original research articles, theoretical articles, and critical reviews on psychology.

Event

An occurrence or happening, especially one of significance, that can be observed or participated in by an individual or group.