Lie Detection Flashcards
________________ refers to the trustworthiness of evidence.
Reliability
________________ refers to the believability of evidence.
Credibility
______________ refers to lying on the stand in court.
Perjury
_____% of people believe there are cues to lying.
71
Only _____% of the time can professionals detect lies.
56
Only _____% of the time can regular people detect lies.
54
The ________________ is the idea that often times we believe behaviour or emotion has only one cause (e.g. in class example).
Othello error
When asked, the confidence police officials in their ability to detect lies is _________%.
77
_______________ means to define reality.
Ground truth
_____________________ the tendency to believe you’re right based on few past experiences (e.g. think of police detectives).
Confirmation bias
What are the 3 criteria for Criteria Based Content Analysis? (truth tellers)
Admitting memory failure, spontaneous corrections, and contextual embedding.
_____________ is when one detective interviews the suspect and it is recorded and another detective transcribes the conversation. Then, a detective goes through that transcript and through everything that was spoken.
Criteria Based Content Analysis
The _________________ is an attempt to trip up the liar.
Verifiability approach
__________________ is when you ask random additional questions, unexpected questions, and in the reverse order.
Cognitive lie detection approach
__________________ is the idea that a guilty party may want to withhold details (e.g. choose what info to share and what info to hold back). The issue is the suspect may not know what evidence the detectives have.
Strategic use of evidence
