Exam 18: Application Module D: Applying Social Psychology to Law

Suppose that, during jury selection for a criminal trial, defense lawyer Wickens decides that she does not want a potential juror named Bob Strange on the jury. He seems unpredictable to her, but potentially likely to favor the prosecution. She therefore tells the judge that she would like to have Bob removed from the jury panel (without stating her reasoning). It would appear that Bob is being removed via the process of ____. ​

The choice of appropriate fillers for a lineup is very important because it can influence both the accuracy of witnesses' identifications and ____.

Suppose that Danielle was an eyewitness to a store robbery. She gives the police a description of the criminal: "30-35-year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 6 feet, with a missing finger on his left hand." A few weeks later, the police track down a suspect. He fits Danielle's description and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck. If the police use the match-to-culprit approach in constructing a lineup for eyewitness identification, then the fillers in the lineup ____.

The jury pool in the United States is known as a(n)____. ​

Suppose that Danielle was an eyewitness to a store robbery. She gives the police a description of the criminal: "30-35-year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 6 feet, with a missing finger on his left hand." A few weeks later, the police track down a suspect. He fits Danielle's description and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck. If the police use the match-to-suspect approach in constructing a lineup for eyewitness identification, then the fillers in the lineup ____.

Moving a trial to a new location where there has been less pretrial publicity is called a change of ____.

Which of the following is an example of a system variable that might lead to inaccuracies in eyewitness identifications in lineups?

When instructions given to individuals viewing a lineup include a warning that the perpetrator may not be in the lineup, there is a(n)____.

When criminal psychologists distinguish between system variables and estimator variables as two sources of inaccuracy in eyewitness reports and identifications, they are distinguishing between variables ____.

When a suspect in a lineup is innocent, fillers that are dissimilar to the suspect ____.

Compared to other juries, juries that are "death qualified" tend to ____.

____ are features of an experiment that communicate to the participant the experimenter's hypothesis.

Delaying a trial is known as a ____.

Women, the poor, and blacks are less likely than others to be represented on trials for capital cases. The main reason for this is because ____.