A primary purpose of the American Law Institute guidelines for defining the insanity defense was to
a) avoid specifying symptoms of mental illness that might later become obsolete.
b) be more specific and informative to lay jurors.
c) allow greater leeway for expert witnesses to define the concept of mental illness.
d) open the defense to the full range of mental illnesses.
b
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Chapter 10 discussed a study by Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs in which two people try to communicate about the order in which various geometric figures are to be arranged. The research showed that
a. people could not accomplish this task unless they were close friends. b. people soon developed a shorthand communication system. c. people typically increased their hand gestures at the same time that they decreased their verbal output. d. people seem to remain fairly stable across trials in terms of the number of turns required to agree upon a figure.
Research with chimpanzees has clearly demonstrated that nonhumans are capable of acquiring language
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.