A Jury Decision in a Civil Case

question 41

Multiple Choice

A jury decision in a civil case:

• A) must be unanimous.
• B) must be reached in the same day the case is heard.
• C) depends on whether or not the parties have agreed to have their case decided by less than a unanimous verdict.
• D) is achieved by informal deliberations.

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Definitions:

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment in which participants decide as quickly as possible whether a given string of letters is a real word or a non-word.

Spreading Activation

A method in cognitive science that explains how information is retrieved in the human brain, suggesting ideas in memory are connected and that activating one idea naturally leads to the activation of related ideas.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment where participants decide as quickly as possible whether a string of letters is a real word or a non-word.

Proposition

A statement or assertion that expresses a judgment or opinion that can be true or false.