Jury Decision Making (A01 For Research Meta Analysis and Mock Jury)

Question 1

(mock juries) weaknesses

Answer 1

No consequences to decisions (fictitious trial)
Jury doesn’t decide sentence length, but asked to in the studies
No deliberation -> usually in real life they deliberate

Question 2

Mock juries (strengths)

Answer 2

Increase internal val -> ctrl over extraneous variables
More ethical (not actual trial)
Standardised -> easy to repeat -> test for consistency

Question 3

Meta analysis (weaknesses)

Answer 3

Aim or hypothesis may be different in other studies
If there is a bias in area (how multicultural the area is and is there a lack of diversity?)
Time of the study -> if the study is older there is more likely to be a racial bias than now as it was less diverse before

Question 4

Meta analysis (strength)

Answer 4

High reliability, multiple studies, secondary data (high credibility)
Wider sample size of ppts -> reduce anomalies (high generalisability & credibility)
Study in depth -> lots of data