Author Question: As a juror in an assault trial, Mimi not only listens to the account of the attorneys and witnesses, ... (Read 86 times)

ARLKQ · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

As a juror in an assault trial, Mimi not only listens to the account of the attorneys and witnesses, but also makes inferences about the assailant's motives and the details of the crime scene. This is consistent with

a. the story model
b. social exchange theory
c. source-monitoring theory
d. the overwriting hypothesis

Question 2

The story model asserts that jurors reach verdicts by

a. ignoring evidence inconsistent with their own theory of the crime
b. actively interpreting and evaluating the evidence they are given
c. noticing the most salient details of the crime and ignoring less interesting, but
relevant, data
d. conforming to the version of events that powerful others on the jury present