Causes That Are Separate from the Defendant's Actions and for Which

question 12

Multiple Choice

Causes that are separate from the defendant's actions and for which the defendant is not help responsibility for an harm caused are named

• A)independent interrupting causes.
• B)dependent intervening causes.
• C)independent intervening causes.
• D)dependent interrupting causes.

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Definitions:

Recognition-Primed Decision Making

A theory of expert decision making holding that decision makers choose options based on analogy of a given situation with previously encountered situations.

Expected Utility

A theory in economics and decision theory that describes how individuals might choose among risky prospects based on the expected outcomes' utility to them.

MAUT

Multi-Attribute Utility Theory, a decision-making framework that evaluates choices based on multiple criteria.

Image Theory

A descriptive theory of decision making positing that the process consists of two stages: (1) a noncompensatory screening of options against the decision maker’s image of values and future, in which the number of options is reduced to a very small set, and (2) a compensatory choice process (if necessary).