Question: Hello please can you read the Selection 3 Mental Disorder and Personal Responsibility on pages 460-467 and help me answer those question? They always give

Hello please can you read the Selection 3 "Mental Disorder and Personal Responsibility" on pages 460-467 and help me answer those question? They always give me the wrong answer. Please read it carefully and help me. PLEASE

1- Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of this selection?

a-The issue of personal responsibility and mental disorder raises difficult questions for society and the criminal justice system.

b- If you do the crime, you have to serve the time.

c-Society needs to understand that mental illness requires treatment just like any other physical illness.

d-People with mental disorders should be given treatment rather than punishment

2- According to this selection,

a-psychologists agree that students who constantly go online do so to deal with the normal problems of their age group.

b-psychologists disagree as to whether spending inordinate amounts of time on the Internet is an actual addiction.

c-previous generations did not suffer from addictions to the same degree as today.

d-eating too much chocolate is an addiction just like a drug addiction.

3- According to this selection, how often is an insanity defense used in criminal cases?

a- in 90% of cases

b- in less than 1% of cases

c- in 14% of cases

d- in more than 5% of cases

4- This selection implies that

a-Andrea Yates is now mentally healthy due to the treatment that she received after her appeal.

b-Andrea Yates might not have killed her children if the conditions of her marriage had been different.

c-Andrea Yates should have remained in prison.

d-Andrea Yates received no mental health care before she murdered her children

5- Information in this selection suggests that which person is likely to receive more sympathy?

a-Andrea Yates

b-a male defendant who is clinically depressed

c-Jared Lee Loughner

d-a female defendant who is clinically depressed

6-Why did the authors include the information about Jared Lee Loughner and Andrea Yates?

a- to criticize the handling of those cases

b-to illustrate the kinds of situations that complicate such cases

c-to cause the reader not to feel sympathy for them

d-to shock the reader with the horrible crimes that they committed

7- Andrea Yates

a-refused to use birth control.

b-had not received psychological evaluation or treatment before she killed her children.

c-enjoyed the challenge of homeschooling her children.

d- suffered a psychotic episode after the birth of her fourth child.

8-Which statement best describes the main point of the last paragraph?

a-Society must protect citizens from harm.

b-People with mental disorders need appropriate care.

c-Everyone faces psychological problems at some time or another

d-Determining the just responsibility of mentally disordered individuals while protecting society is a challenge with no single solution.

9- The selection suggests that

a-charges against a person with brain damage are likely to be dismissed.

b-the charge and punishment can be less severe for a person who has brain damage.

c-a person with brain damage will be treated the same by the courts as a person who has a mental disorder.

d-the handling of defendants with brain damage and mental disor-ders will be the same regardless of where they are tried.

10- The authors main purpose is to

a-come to a conclusion about the personal responsibilities of people with mental disorders.

b-present the issues surrounding the question of mental disorder and responsibility.

c-make a case for reduced sentences for people with mental disorders.

d- stir the emotions of the reader with specific cases.

11-The basis for psychological diagnoses is a document called the DSM

True

False

12- A logical conclusion is that mentally ill defendants often spend more time in a treatment facility than healthy defendants spend in prison because they are not cured and still pose a real threat to others.

True

False

13- The authors point of view is that people with mental disorders should be treated differently by the courts than mentally healthy people.

True

False

14- Jared Lee Loughners trial was delayed because he had been forced to take antipsychotic drugs.

True

False

15- The authors believe that students who use the Internet or other electronic media to avoid their problems have a mental disorder.

True

False

HELP ME PLEASE I WANT THE RIGHT ANSWERS PLEASE!!!

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