For each of these situations in questions 17-18 determine wh…
For each of these situations in questions 17-18 determine whether you think the matter should be heard in state or federal court. Also decide whether you think a court will apply state or federal law. A wife wants to divorce her husband.
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You’re sitting on a jury trying to determine whether the defendant is guilty of the crime he is accused of, which is kidnapping an adult for no ransom. You think “I can understand if someone abducted a child for a ransom, and he looks like someone who would do that, but I don’t see him as being guilty for kidnapping an adult and not demanding anything.” You catch yourself and realize that you are applying which heuristic that is leading to a bias?
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Suppose that you have always prepared a family recipe for meatballs by adding ingredients in a specific order. You are given a fancy, new food processor and find it would work well to mix the ingredients in the recipe. However, while it is far more efficient to mix the ingredients in a different order with the food processor, you continue to mix them in the same order you always did. You are exhibiting the phenomenon of
Read DetailsYoung Suzie started school at the age of 5 and even though s…
Young Suzie started school at the age of 5 and even though she had not learned a lot of manners and societal norms from her family, she began to be taught informal norms and manners by her teachers and also learned societal expectations by watching her classmates. She learned norms from being in afterschool care and playing on the community soccer team. This type of socialization is called:
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In Patch v. Hillerich and Bradsby Co., where the parents of a baseball player, who died after getting hit in the head with a ball hit by H&B’s model CB-13 aluminum bat, sued the bat company for strict products liability, the court
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