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Lab #1 Part 1 (#1-3) – Problems that are NOT Programs – PSEUDOCODE ONLY – DO NOT WRITE JAVA PROGRAMS FOR #1-3.

1. Write the pseudocode for the following program – remember pseudocode is the STEPS the COMPUTER will take to solve the problem. A program that calculates and displays the total retail price of an item sold at a store. The total retail price of a sale item is the price of an item before sales tax plus the amount of sales tax on the item. The program will need to get the sales tax rate and the price of the item before sales tax in order to calculate the total retail price of the item. This program should output (display) the calculated amount of sales tax on the item and the total calculated total retail price of the item.

2. Write the pseudocode for the following program. A program that calculates and displays a customer’s bank balance at the end of a month. The customer’s bank balance at the end of a month is: the beginning bank balance + the total amount of monthly deposits made – the total amount of monthly withdrawals made + interest earned. The information the program will need to get from the user is: the beginning bank balance, the amount of monthly deposits, the amount of monthly withdrawals, and the monthly interest rate. The program should calculate the interest earned based on the ending bank balance before adding interest to it. The program should display the ending bank balance on the screen.

3. Write the pseudocode for the following program. A program that calculates a sales person’s bonus based on the amount of sales they generated for the month. The sales person’s bonus is calculated by multiplying a bonus percentage by the amount of monthly sales the person generated. Make sure and ask the user of the program what their bonus percentage is and what their sales for the month are. The program should display the sales person’s bonus on the screen.

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The issue with psychological based evidence is that very few neuroimaging-based tests are used in psychiatric diagnosis which lacks the sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be reliable enough for inclusion in diagnostic criteria” (Choi). When looking at the defendants self-reporting of their behavior, brain scans often reveal more than those reports suggest. “While most people’s self-reports are not very accurate, they do not realize their self-reports are wrong so often in predicting future behavior. The brain seems to reveal something important that we may not even realize” (University of California).

Jurors understanding of neuroscientific evidence is based upon whether they make a connection through the aforementioned evidence about the person’s criminal culpability (Kuersten). “Increasing the understanding of the pathology of the brain and the structural insights provided by technologies such as MRI have assisted both prosecution and defense in establishing degrees of harm cause” (Catley & Claydon). When presenting an individual’s criminal liability within the courts, the mental state and capacity of such individual’s brain should include neuroimaging and informative presentations to allow jurors to determine criminal responsibility (Kuersten).

Conclusion:

Based upon empirical evidence, brain scans should not be permitted in court. Neuroscience within courtrooms has been used for medical evidence or mitigating circumstances to prove that an abnormality had an effect on an individual’s behavior, however it has a lack of validated studies (Gaines).

Another issue that brain scans could produce in the courts is how the brain i

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