Modules

Question 1

Psychological stress

Answer 1

The sense that challenges and demands surpass one’s current capacities, resources, and energies

Question 2

Rumination

Answer 2

The tendency to think about a stressful event and its causes, symptoms, and implications repeatedly and continually over time

Question 3

Expressive writing

Answer 3

Writing about the focal emotions of current stresses and trauma in ways that bring about insight and reduced stress

Question 4

Incremental theory of intelligence

Answer 4

The belief that intelligence is something people can improve by working at it

Question 5

Entity theory of intelligence

Answer 5

The belief that intelligence is something people are born with and can’t change

Question 6

Voir dire

Answer 6

The portion of a trial in U.S. courts in which the judge, the prosecuting attorney, and the defense attorney interview prospective jurors to determine their potential biases and ultimately select a jury

Question 7

Scientific jury selection

Answer 7

A statistical approach to jury selection whereby jury selection specialists interview members of different demographic groups in the broader community about their attitudes toward various issues related to a trial, and defense and prosecuting attorneys try to influence the selection of jurors accordingly

Question 8

Death-qualified jury

Answer 8

A jury from which prospective jurors who would never recommend the death penalty have been excluded