Chapter 12 Terms

Question 1

act of simulation

Answer 1

forms of deception that involve fabricating information or exagerating facts for the purpose of misleading others

Question 2

falsification

Answer 2

a form of deception that involves presenting false, fabricated information as though it were true

Question 3

exaggeration

Answer 3

a form of deception that involves inflating or overstating facts

Question 4

acts of dissimulation

Answer 4

forms of deception that involve omitting certain details that change the nature of the story if they were unknown

Question 5

omission

Answer 5

a form of deception that involves leaving consequential details out of one’s story

Question 6

equivocation

Answer 6

a form of deception that involves giving vague, ambiguous answers to a question to create the false impression that one has answered it

Question 7

truth bias

Answer 7

the tendency to believe what someone says, in the absence of a reason not to

Question 8

motivation impairment effect

Answer 8

a hypothesis is that motivation to succeed in a lie will impair a deceiver’s verbal performance, making the lie less likely to be believed

Question 9

interactive context

Answer 9

a context for communicating in which participants can see and/or hear each other and react to each other in real time (for example, face-to-face conversation, telephone conversation)

Question 10

non-interactive context

Answer 10

a context for communicating in which the participants cannot react to each other in real time (for example, a voice mail message, an e-mail message)

Question 11

deception

Answer 11

the knowing and intentional transmission of information to create a false belief in the hearer