Exam 2 - Lecture's 12 Flashcards
_________ juries critiqued more than _________ juries
- Civil
- criminal
Civil juries make TWO decisions:
- Whether defendant is liable or _________ for alleged harm
- Whether injured party should receive _________ to compensate for losses and whether defendant should be punished (damages)
- responsible
- money
_________ juries make TWO decisions:
- Whether defendant is liable or responsible for alleged harm
- Whether injured party should receive money to compensate for losses and whether defendant should be punished (_________)
- Civil
- damages
Civil juries make TWO decisions:
- Whether defendant is liable or responsible for alleged _________
- Whether injured party should receive money to compensate for losses and whether defendant should be _________ (damages)
- harm
- punished
-Jury Research-
_________ (social influence, conformity, small-group behavior)
Social psychology
-Jury Research-
_________ (persuasion, decision-making, information processing)
Cognitive psychology
_________ -
Central theme of legal psychology
-Jury Research
-Jury Research-
Focuses on two main issues:
- Are juries _________ enough to make the decisions asked of them?
- Are juries biased and _________
- competent
- prejudiced
3 Major Areas of Jury Research:
- Theories of _________ Making
- Expert Testimony & Jurors
- Pre-Trial _________
- Decision
- Publicity
3 Major Areas of Jury Research:
- Theories of Decision Making
- Expert _________
- Pre-Trial Publicity
Testimony & Jurors
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Legal System’s implicit theory:
- Withhold _________ (non-bias, withholding opinion)
- No passion or prejudice
- Weigh _________ (utilitarian) [look at each piece independently from other evidence]
- Judgment
- Evidence
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Legal System’s _________ theory:
- Withhold Judgment (non-bias, withholding opinion)
- No _________ or prejudice
- Weigh Evidence (utilitarian) [look at each piece independently from other evidence]
- implicit
- passion
-Theories of Decision-Making-
_________ (Pennington, Hastie, & Penrod)
- Active building and ever-changing story
- Incorporates biases and views
- Best story wins
Story Model Theory
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Story Model Theory (Pennington, Hastie, & Penrod)
- Active _________ and ever-changing story
- Incorporates biases and views
- Best _________ wins
- building
- story
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Story Model Theory-
Evaluating the evidence through story construction
- 3 kinds of info used (differing interpretations lead to different stories)
- _________
- -Real-world knowledge
- -Their own generic _________ (schemata)
- Evidence
- experiences
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Coherence Theory (Simon, 2001)-
- General Ideas behind Coherence:
- -Bi-_________
- Interconnectedness of evidence
- -Shifting of ambiguous to _________
- directionality
- polarized
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Coherence Theory (Simon, 2001)-
- General Ideas behind Coherence:
- -Bi-directionality
- Interconnectedness of _________
- -Shifting of _________ to polarized
- evidence
- ambiguous
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Coherence Methodology:
- Rate unrelated, neutral _________
- Act as a judge in the Quest case
- Render a _________
- Rate the attorneys arguments (functionally identical to the earlier vignettes!)
- vignettes
- verdict
-Theories of Decision-Making-
Coherence Methodology:
- Rate unrelated, neutral vignettes
- Act as a _________ in the Quest case
- Render a verdict
- Rate the attorneys _________ (functionally identical to the earlier vignettes!)
- judge
- arguments
Decision Making Theories:
_________ (Eagly & Chaiken)-
Central Processing – when listening you are listening to the content [more cognitive load]
Peripheral Processing (problematic*) – tone of voice, do they sound confident etc. [_________ features]
- Dual-Process Theory
- superficial
Decision Making Theories:
Dual-Process Theory (Eagly & Chaiken)-
_________ – when listening you are listening to the content [more cognitive load]
_________ – tone of voice, do they sound confident etc. [superficial features]
- Central Processing
- Peripheral Processing (problematic*)
Decision Making Theories:
Dual-Process Theory (Eagly & Chaiken)-
Central Processing – when listening you are listening to the _________ [more cognitive load]
Peripheral Processing (problematic*) – tone of _________, do they sound confident etc. [superficial features]
- content
- voice
Decision Making Theories:
Dual-Process Theory (Eagly & Chaiken)-
Central Processing – when listening you are listening to the content [more _________ load]
Peripheral Processing (problematic*) – tone of voice, do they sound _________ etc. [superficial features]
- cognitive
- confident
When cognitive resources are full in _________ processing we fall to _________ processing
(jurors more often defer to _________ processing)
- central
- peripheral
- peripheral