The Use of a Physically Painful Procedure for Determining Guilt

question 49

Multiple Choice

The use of a physically painful procedure for determining guilt or innocence is called __________.

• A)jury trial
• B)trial of endurance
• C)trial by ordeal
• D)feuding
• E)informal social control

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Definitions:

Negative Feedback

A control system where a trigger produces a contrary effect to sustain an optimal state of the regulated subject.

Healthy Individuals

Persons having a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Directional Terms

Descriptive phrases used in anatomy to explain the locations and positions of structures relative to each other.

Left

A direction or side that is opposite to right, often associated with the left side of the body or objects.