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Chelseaamend

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Research by Sommers and Norton (2007) on the impact of race on the use of peremptory challenges implies that attorneys
 
  a. are equally likely to remove from the jury African-American and Caucasian individuals.
  b. do not always give accurate explanations when asked to justify a peremptory challenge.
  c. are impacted by prospective jurors' gender more so than their race.
  d. are influenced by race more so in civil trials as opposed to criminal trials.

Question 2

Which of the following was not an argument of Devine's (1989) early work on the automatic activation of stereotypes?
 
  a. Exposure to a member of a stereotyped group is sufficient to activate the stereotype.
  b. Stereotype activation is automatic, but stereotypes cannot influence judgments without conscious intent.
  c. Exposure to some content of the stereotype will activate the general stereotype.
  d. Automatic stereotype activation biases subsequent judgments in the direction of the activated stereotype.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

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