PSYCH 2650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Learned Helplessness, Adversarial System, Affirmative Defense

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Walker v. texas division sons of confederate veterans inc. Holding: the rejection by the board was ruled as not violating free speech. 1st amendment (obscenity, incitement); california must prove either obscenity or strict scrutiny. !2: the act does violate the first amendment, the relationship between aggressive behavior and video games is correlational, but not causational. Dissent: j. alito: alito concurs, but disagrees with the approach: the court should make every effort to understand new technology, and not dismiss legislature who argues the implications of such technology. Holding: no, the law is within constitutional boundaries, separate but equal . Reasons: separation does not imply inferiority, the law promotes the preservation of public peace, the colored race chooses to put the construction of inferiority upon itself, legislation cannot eradicate racial instinct. Holding: yes, separate but equal facilities are unequal and violate the clause.