If a Potential Juror's Response to a Question Indicates Bias

question 60

True/False

If a potential juror's response to a question indicates bias, an attorney should use a peremptory challenge to remove the juror.

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Stages

Freud's theory of childhood development that centers on the manifestations of the sexual instinct at different ages.

Defense Mechanisms

Devices the ego uses to keep threatening material out of awareness and thereby reduce or avoid anxiety.

Neurotic Anxiety

A form of anxiety resulting from an unconscious fear that the ego's control over unacceptable impulses of the id will fail, leading to punishment for inappropriate thoughts or behaviors.

Unconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains material that cannot easily be brought into awareness.