Study guide

Question 1

What is the purpose of interviews and interrogations?

Answer 1

To find the truth

Question 2

What is the potential for error in eye-witness identifications?

Answer 2

45-60% of all eye-witness identifications are wrong

Question 3

What are the four factors involved in eye-witness identifications?

Answer 3

Perception
Memory Recall
Communication
Candor

Question 4

Our communication is categorized into what percentages?

Answer 4

7% words (verbal)
38% voice (paraverbal)
55% gestures (body language)

Question 5

What is the relationship of recall and speech?

Answer 5

Recall rate: 500 wpm
Speech rate: 120 wpm
Lie rate: 60 wpm (max)

Question 6

What is the profile of an interviewer?

Answer 6

Attitude
Posture
Eye contact
Facial expressions
Tone of voice

Question 7

Explain random recall

Answer 7

Retelling event in different order (back to front)

Question 8

What are some characteristics of a good listener?

Answer 8

Eye contact while speaking
Clarifies what is being said
Repeats occasionally to stay engaged
Reacts responsively
Pays attention
Doesn’t interrupt

Question 9

What’s the importance of verbal behavior (rate, pitch, and volume) as it relates to deception?

Answer 9

When rate, pitch, and volume all increase simultaneously there is a statistical probability of 80-90% deception.

Question 10

Define lies of omission

Answer 10

Lie by leaving something out of the story.

Question 11

Explain and give examples of open ended questions.

Answer 11

Effective
Provides basis for discussion
Allows for narrative answer
Prevents leading
Ex: what happened next?

Question 12

What’s the significance of non-answers?

Answer 12

Things that people say that do not provide what you asked for.

Ex: Do I look like that type?

If a person dosen’t answer the question… he answered the question.

Question 13

Define kinesis.

Answer 13

Movement and gestures

Question 14

Define behavior symptom analysis.

Answer 14

The study of verbal and non verbal characteristics of the truthfulness of a suspect, victim, or witness.

Question 15

Define leakage.

Answer 15

The liar inadvertently reveals the truth.

Question 16

Understand the time factor as it relates to behavior change or deceptive persons.

Answer 16

Look and listen for the first deceptive behavior to occur within 5 seconds after the stimulus is delivered.

A cluster is any combination of two or more deceptive indicators when a stimulus is introduced.

Question 17

Define admission.

Answer 17

Any act or statement made by the suspect that tends toward proving his guilt.

Ex: I’m sorry about what I did.

Question 18

Define confession,

Answer 18

A statement made by the suspect that acknowledges him to be guilty of the offense charged and discloses the details of the act.

Question 19

Define interrogation.

Answer 19

To examine by questioning a suspect formally when guilt is reasonably certain.

Question 20

What criteria are required for issuing Miranda warnings?

Answer 20

There is a restriction on a persons freedom as to render him in custody

Formal arrest
Loss of freedom associated with a formal arrest

And the person is being questioned