PSY328H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: External Validity, Summary Offence, Internal Validity
Document Summary
Chapter 8 juries and judges as decision makers: useful to think of a trial as a decision making situation. Trial is a highly structured method of providing a jury or a judge with the information necessary to make considered, impartial decisions. Juries are unusual groups regulated by unusual rules. First, unlike most decision-making groups, juries comprise people who may have little in com- mon and have no established relationships. Section 649 of the criminal code prohibits jurors from disclosing any of their deliberations under threat of a summary conviction that could result in a maximum se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:1010) (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths" i(cid:373)p(cid:396)iso(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d a fi(cid:374)e of up to 000. This means that social scientists in canada cannot study the jury directly and must rely on indirect methods. Mock or simulated juries remain the most common research tool social scientists in canada have for studying jury decision making.
