A Compatibilist Would Claim That If a Formerly Upright Citizen

question 87

Multiple Choice

A compatibilist would claim that if a formerly upright citizen chooses to become a criminal,this shows that

• A) people sometimes make free choices that are not determined by their personality.
• B) persons can never be held morally responsible for their actions.
• C) internal and external causes acted to determine the person's behavior differently than it was determined previously.
• D) human behavior is too complex to know if we are free or determined.

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Definitions:

Erroneous Reconstructions

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Schemata Representations

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Maze Learning

A method used in cognitive psychology and animal behavior studies to assess spatial learning and memory.