Studies Show That Jurors Tend to Be More Skeptical About

question 54

True/False

Studies show that jurors tend to be more skeptical about the profit motives of businesses than of individual defendants.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially impartial stimulus which, upon association with an unconditioned stimulus, gradually brings about a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a reflexive response without the need for prior learning.

Stimulus Generalization

A learning process in which the conditioned response is evoked by stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.