The Merchant's Privilege with Regard to Shoplifters Requires Each of the Following

question 74

Multiple Choice

The merchant's privilege with regard to shoplifters requires each of the following except:

• A) the shopkeeper must have reasonable cause to stop the customer.
• B) the shopkeeper only may detain the customer for a reasonable time.
• C) the shopkeeper must make a reasonable investigation if possible.
• D) the shopkeeper must have an eye witness or video evidence of the theft

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Definitions:

Hermann Ebbinghaus

A German psychologist best known for his pioneering work on memory and learning, including the discovery of the forgetting curve.

Forgetting Occurs

The process where information once learned and stored in the brain is lost or becomes harder to recall over time.

Encoding Failure

A situation in which information does not enter the brain's long-term memory and thus is forgotten.

Long-Term Memory

The phase of memory in which information is stored for extended periods of time, potentially lifelong, beyond the capacity of short-term or working memory.