A. Waiting for someone else to tell you how to think, what to conclude, or what to do.

B. This counterproductive behavior was best demonstrated by juror # 3. When

justifying his reasoning for finding the boy guilty he bases his decision on eyewitness testimony that he takes as a fact. He says, “You can throw out all other evidence, the woman saw him do it”

A. When someone jumps to a premature conclusion.

B. This was demonstrated when one of the members of the jury was unwilling to cooperate during the group discussion. He was constantly over generalizing, attacking people’s arguments, randomly expressing his opinion and accusing people of believing too much of what wasn’t even in the case. The boy was guilty and he wanted to hear nothing more.

A. Withdrawing if someone challenges your ideas.

B. Juror # 12 demonstrates a lack of confidence when the other jury members approach him after he changes his ‘guilty’ vote to ‘not guilty’. The men ask him why he has made this decision, which is obviously a big decision. He refuses to ex

B. Either-or-thinking took place when the men were discussing whether or not the boy was guilty. They assumed that the boy was either the murderer or he was at the movies on the day in question. Since the boy was unable to recall any specific details about the movie’s characters, plot, or titles, he couldn’t have been at the movies. Therefore, the boy was the killer. They didn’t consider the fact that the boy was questioned in the apartment where his father’s slain body remained. They were overlooked, as well as other possibilities.

V. Unwillingness to think critically

A. When the speaker mistakenly reports the cause of an event.

Some topics in this essay:
Behavior Closing, Attack A, Overgeneralization A, Incomplete Comparison, Or- Thinking, Causal Relationship, Confidence Withdrawing, Figures Waiting, II Impulsiveness, juror #, # 10, juror # 10, Counterproductive Behaviors, juror # 5, changed mind, boy guilty, incomplete comparison, juror # 3, # 5, # 3, kill father, 3 accuses juror, real reason, assumed boy, # 3 accuses,