Forensic Quiz 4

Question 1

What happened in Kassin et al.’s study?

Answer 1

Students are interrogators and suspects, they manipulated a guilt by belief variable - of stealing money. The suspects are given a reward if they are found not guilty.

Question 2

Who are the people most likely one to be judged guilty in the Kassin et al. (2003) crime?

Answer 2

Innocent person who hasn’t committed the act.

Question 3

What is the most commonly used technique?

Answer 3

The Reid technique, it has 3 general strategies:

1. Gather evidence
2. conduct a BAI
3. conduct an accusatorial interrogation to obtain a confession

Question 4

Explain the experiment ‘Russano et al (2005)’

Answer 4

In this case, “you” and another individual are brought in a room together to do an exercise and you’re told to work on it independently - 2nd person is an experimenter.
Their job is to get you to help on their own questions.
Conclusion : you either help or you don’t.

Question 5

What is the PEACE statement?

Answer 5

Preparation and planning
Engage and explain
Account
Closure
Evaluate

Question 6

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 6

When someone always believes that they are right and it is impossible for them to see another point of view