Part A: Answer each of the following questions in one or two paragraphs.
1. What are the three branches of the US government, and what authority does each branch have? Explain the separation of powers doctorine.
2. What is a class action suit? Discuss the legal requirements of a class action suit.
3. Describe the two types of due process guaranteed to all citizens under the US Constitution.
Part B: Answer each of the following questions in one to four sentences.
1. Define the term amicus curiae.
2. What does pendent jurisdiction enable federal courts to do?
3. What do general damages compensate for?
4. What was decided in the US Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison?
5. Define the term at bar.
6. What is default judgment?
7. Name three of the five sources of modern American law.
8. What is the purpose of discovery during a lawsuit or criminal trial?
9. When is the decision of the state court of last resort not final?
10. What type of jurisdiction did the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 give to Native American tribal courts?
Essentials of Psychology
Part A: Select ONE of the following questions to answer in one or two paragraphs, totaling between 20 and 30 sentences.
1. What are four reasons that we forget? What is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference? What important purpose does forgetting serve? Be sure to include examples.
2. Describe dissociative disorders in general and several specific disorders of this kind by way of illustration. Contrast dissociative disorders with somatoform disorders, briefly explaining two
such disorders.
Part B: Answer each of the following in three to five sentences.
1. With respect to aging, differentiate disengagement theory and activity theory.
2. In the context of operant conditioning, what is shaping?
3. How was factor analysis used to create Hans Eysenck’s trait theory of personality?
4. Briefly, in terms of human behavior, how would you define or explain latent learning?
5. What is the opposite of a background stressor?
6. What kind of drug is Rohypnol, why is called the “date rape drug”?
7. What is the reticular formation? Where is it located, and why is it important?
8. Discuss memory traces and their role in decay.
9. When you wish an employee to become adept a particularly boring task, which schedule of reinforcement would you choose? Why?
10. Contrast the medical, psychoanalytical, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and sociocultural perspectives of mental illness.
Part C: High-light the letter of the one best answer to each question.
1. Solomon Asch’s experiments explored the nature of
A. compliance.
B. conformity.
C. attachment.
D. obedience.
2. An emphasis on the development of an inferiority complex was of special interest to
A. Sigmund Freud.
B. Karen Horney.
C. Alfred Adler.
D. Carl Jung.
3. In the human body, the rate at which food is converted into energy is called
A. metabolism.
B. conversion.
C. the set point.
D. the weight set point.
4. A positive reinforcement is to adding something to the environment as a/an_________
reforcement is to taking something out of the enviroment.
A. neutral
B. aversive
C. negative
D. partial