Claire Required a Reference for a New Job

question 47

Multiple Choice

Claire required a reference for a new job.She asked for a letter from her former employer,Alice.Alice wrote that Claire was honest,hard working,intelligent,and pleasant,and would do best in a job with considerable direction and supervision.Since Claire had applied for work in outside sales,she was turned down as the job needed an independent self-starter.Claire sued Alice for libel.

• A)Alice can successfully argue that she had written the letter in good faith and said only what she honestly believed to be true.
• B)Even if what Alice said was true,Claire will win since,if she was not willing to write only positive things,Alice should have declined to write at all.
• C)Alice can successfully raise the defence of absolute privilege.
• D)Unless Alice can prove the truth of what she wrote,Claire will win.
• E)Alice's freedom of speech must be protected even at the expense of Claire's right to protect her reputation so,even if Alice was not being totally truthful,Claire will lose.

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Definitions:

Responses

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Time

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Instrumental Conditioning

Another term for operant conditioning, a learning process in which behavior is modified by the reinforcing or punishing consequences that follow.