According to Research by Heilbrun Et Al

question 49

Multiple Choice

According to research by Heilbrun et al. (2002) , all of the following are concerns with actuarial instruments except they

• A) may include legally unacceptable risk factors.
• B) often have a restricted definition of violence.
• C) focus on a small number of factors.
• D) are too generalizable to other contexts.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Set

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another, influenced by expectations, emotions, and experiences.

Gestalt Psychologist

A psychologist who studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns or configurations, not just as simple sums of their parts.

Negative Afterimages

A visual phenomenon where an image continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.

Opponent-Process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that accounts for a wide range of behaviors, including color vision. This theory suggests that emotions are paired in a way that when one is activated, the other is suppressed.