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Ch.12 Social Psychology - Kassin et al.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/04/2012

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Term
Voir Dire
Definition
The pretrial examination of prospective juror by the judge or opposing lawyers to uncover signs of bias.
Term
Peremptory Challenge
Definition
A means by which lawyers can exclude a limited number of prospective jurors without the judge's approval.
Term

Contrary to popular opinion, women are harsher as trial jurors than men are.


True or False?

Definition
False.
Term

The intuitive approach to jury selection leads to discrimination on the basis of race and other characteristics.

 

True or False?

Definition

True.

sometimes.

Term
Scientific Jury Selection
Definition
A method of selecting juries through surveys that yield correlations between demographics and tril relevant attitudes.
Term
Death Qualification
Definition
A jury selection procedure used in capital cases that permits judges to exclude prospective jurors who say that they would not vote for the death penalty.
Term
The most common methods of execution?
Definition

Hanging, Shooting, Beheading 

 

in the USA - electrocution, lethal injection, and poisonous gas.

Term

Errors in eye witness testimony are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions.

 

True or False?

Definition

True.

75% of all eye witness testimony is incorrect.

Term

Without being beaten or threatened, innocent people sometimes confess to crimes they did not commit.

 

True or False?

 

Definition
True.
Term

A person can fool a lie detector test by supressing arousal when questions about the crimes are asked. 

 

True or False?

 

Definition
False.
Term

Eyewitnesses find it relatively difficult to recofnize members of a race other than their own. 

 

True or False?

Definition
True.
Term
Weapon Focus Effect
Definition
The tendency for the presense of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify the culprit.
Term
Cross-race identification bias
Definition
The tendency for people to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own.
Term
Misinformation Effect
Definition
the tendency for false post-event misinformation to become integrated into people's memory of an event. 
Term

The more confident an eyewitness is about an identification, the more accurate he/she is likely to be.

 

True or False?

 

Definition
False.
Term
Jury Nullification
Definition
The jury's power to disregard or nulify the law when it conflicts with personal conceptions of justice.
Term
Leniency Bias
Definition
the tendency for jury deliberation to produce a tilt toward acquittal.
Term
Sentencing Disperity
Definition
Inconsistency of sentences for the same offense from one judge to another. 
Term
Adversarial Model
Definition
a dispute resolution system in which the prosecution and defense present opposing sides of the story.
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