12 Angry Men Answers

12 Angry Men: Matching Ch. 18 terms to the movieSome suggestions for answers

Juror No. 10 is prejudiced Makes racial

statements Prejudice: he

referred to people in slums as trash

Juror No. 3 has an attitude Lee J. Cobb He clings to the

guilty verdict.

Attitude:expressed toward Juror 2 before they began deliberations

http

://w

ww

.dv

dbeave

r.co

m/fi

lm/D

VDR

evie

w2/

12angr

ymen.ht

m

Demonstrated when

they all raised

their

hands to

vote guilty---just to

get along---at the

beginning of the

jury deliberation

process

Normative Social Influence

Juror No. 8uses his footJuror No. 8

uses his foot Mr. Davis (Henry Fonda) He casts the first not guilty

vote Foot in the door

phenomenon: on the way to convincing more jurors he gets to just agree to listen to the evidence

Juror No. 8 uses Group think If everyone votes

guilty I wont stand alone

This was before the second vote.

He wants harmony in the group. Which ever way they all vote, hell vote.

Juror No. 5 is influenced by information (conformity)

Hes outraged at racial remarks

Informational social influence: He becomes the second juror to change his vote after hearing more evidence

Juror No. 3 is deindividualized Lee J. Cobb He clings to the

guilty verdict. Deindividuation: He loses his cool

defending his the guilty verdict and wanting to fight about it

Juror No. 3 scapegoats the defendant

Lee J. Cobb He clings to the

guilty verdict. Scapegoating:

blames the defendant when hes really mad at his son

rotten kids, you work your life out

Juror No. 10 espouses racism Makes racial statements Racism: its born in them Thats the way they are,

by nature Calls the defendant a

common, ignorant slob who cant even speak English

Theyre no good; theres not a one of emthats any good. (after the 9-3 vote)

Attribution error Background: Two factors influence our

behavior-- our disposition and our situation. Several jurors, particularly No. 3 and No.

10 overemphasize the personal factors of the defendant and overlook the situational factors that influence the behaviors

This is known as Fundamental attribution error

Juror No. 3, Attribution error Lee J. Cobb He clings to the

guilty verdict. Commits the

fundamental attribution error

Juror No. 10, Attribution error Makes racial

statements

Commits the fundamental attribution error

Conformity examples They can be either normative or

informational Normative if they just went along to

conform to the norm of the group (what everybody else is doing)

Informational if they changed their vote based on evidence/information from the discussion

Juror No. 4 The

stockbroker

Cognitive dissonance example If our actions and our attitudes dont

coincide (agree) we experience tension and try to reduce it by changing our beliefs or our actions.

Juror No. 4 is an example with the movie memory scene

Juror No. 9, Mr. McCardle

Tries to create cognitive dissonance in Juror 4 by referring to his eye glass marks as they relate to a key witnesses eye marks