Exam 15: Social Psychology in Court

Research suggests that jurors in the minority will be most persuasive when they are all of the following EXCEPT:

The process of witnessing an event,receiving misleading information about it,and then incorporating the misleading information into one's memory of the event is referred to as the ________ effect.

Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is FALSE?

Blair et al.(2004)reported that over a two-decade period,Black males convicted of murdering a White defendant were doubly likely to be sentenced to death if:

When presented with circumstantial evidence and no eyewitnesses to a robbery-murder case,Elizabeth Loftus found in her study that 18 percent of her participants voted to convict the suspect.Presented with the same information plus one eyewitness,________ percent of participants voted to convict.

Dunning and Perretta (2002)found that those eyewitnesses who made their identifications ________ were nearly 90 percent accurate.

To gain insight into juror comprehension,researchers use ________ as mock jurors and have them view ________.

Blair Sheppard and Neil Vidmar (1980)had some students serve as witnesses to a fight,while others took the roles of lawyers and judges.When interviewed by the defense lawyer,the witnesses:

The tendency for witnesses to incorporate misleading information into their memories is especially strong when:

If convicted,________ people strike people as more dangerous,especially if they are sexual offenders.

What effect does rehearsing answers to questions before taking the witness stand have on testimony?

Wells et al.(1981)had eyewitnesses to a staged theft rehearse their answers to questions before taking the witness stand.Doing so:

The misinformation effect among eyewitnesses can be reduced by:

Research shows that when a judge rules evidence to be inadmissible and admonishes the jury to ignore it:

Which of the following refers to internalized confessions?

You have just been appointed to serve as a new county judge.You are concerned about the effect inadmissible evidence may have on the jury in an upcoming trial of a sexual assault case.You anticipate that the defense attorney will seek to introduce evidence regarding the victim's prior sexual history.To minimize the impact of such evidence on the jury,you should:

Which of the following is a finding from the research on the influence of courtroom factors?

Research experiments by Wells and others (1979)show that incorrect eyewitnesses are believed ________ of the time.

Which of the following statements can lead to imagination inflation?

After the eyewitness of a hit-and-run crime offers an unprompted recollection of the incident,which of the following is an evocative and open-ended question that should be asked to the eyewitness to ensure that the recollections are the most accurate?