Studies show that a judge’s instruction to ignore certain information as inadmissible evidence may often lead to the opposite: the effect of this information on the jurors is amplified. The text mentions all of the following explanations as possible reasons for this effect, EXCEPT:

Mock juries benefit trial lawyers when the actual trial and jury selection takes place because:

Biometrics is the:

Sabrina works as a bank teller. When one of the customers pointed a gun at her and demanded that she give him the key to the safe deposit box, she was so frightened that she could barely move. After the customer got the key, Sabrina was told to raise her hands and stand with her face into the wall for the rest of the time the bank robbery was unfolding. About 30 seconds passed between the time when Sabrina first saw the customer and the time she was told to turn to the wall with her hands raised. When recalling the event, she is likely to estimate that 30-second time period to have lasted about:

Research on improving eyewitness identification procedures is especially important in light of considerable human costs to false identification. Which one of the following is NOT among these costs?

The courts’ decisions with regard to civil commitment laws tend to support the idea that psychological experts _____ predict future violence, _____.

The courts’ decisions with regard to civil commitment laws tend to support the idea that psychological experts _____ predict future violence, _____.

In addition to issues with memory in general, other things can introduce biases. Studies show that interference can take place during the process of identification of a suspect: Witnesses may feel more certain about their memory of an event or perpetrator as a result of _____ and _____.

Predictions made by psychological experts regarding potential future violence are almost uniformly _____ by the courts.

Negative pretrial publicity makes jurors more likely to see the defendant as _____. When studies assessed if the judge’s instructions to disregard the negative publicity make a difference, they found that such instructions _____.