Summative Questions Flashcards
Alfred Binet conducted a series of studies to examine how question types influenced the accuracy of child eyewitnesses. He found that:
-moderately leading questions result in the most accurate answers
-free recall results in the most accurate answers
-highly leading questions result in the most accurate answers
-free recall results in the least accurate answers
-eyewitness accuracy did not vary across question type
free recall results in the most accurate answers
According to von Schrenck-Notzing, extensive pretrial press coverage could influence the testimony of people by causing what he called:
a) post-event misinformation
b) memory contamination
c) source monitoring errors
d) exposure distortion
e) retroactive memory falsification
retroactive memory falsification
In what legal case did the Supreme Court of Canada first define the criteria for determining when the testimony of expert witnesses, including psychologists, would be admitted in court?
R. v. Mohan
According to the narrow definition of forensic psychology, which of the following specialists would not be considered a forensic psychologist?
a. A psychologist who provides risk assessments to the parole board.
b. A psychologist who studies how psychopathy influences patterns of offending.
c. A psychologist who treats victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
d. A psychologist who consults with lawyers concerning whether their clients are fit to stand trial.
e. A psychologist who provides court-mandated treatment to offenders.
A psychologist who studies how psychopathy influences patterns of offending.
Dr. Fahmy works with the police to determine time of death by examining insect activity surrounding a dead body. Which of the following disciplines does Dr. Fahmy work in?
a. Forensic anthropology
b. Forensic odontology
c. Forensic entomology
d. Forensic pathology
e. Forensic podiatry
Forensic entomology
Which of the following is an example of research classified as “psychology and the law”?
a. providing expert testimony on child witnesses
b. studying the accuracy of eyewitnesses
c. police using proper interviewing techniques
d. studying how judicial discretion influences future criminal behaviour
e. examining how court rulings influence forensic psychologists
studying the accuracy of eyewitnesses
Which of the following is not specified by the Daubert criteria?
a. The research adheres to professional standards.
b. The research is falsifiable.
c. The research has been peer reviewed.
d. The research has a recognized rate of error.
e. The research has been conducted in real-world (i.e., non-lab) settings.
The research has been conducted in real-world (i.e., non-lab) settings.
Officer MacDonald is interrogating Dianna concerning the suspicious death of her brother-in-law. Dianna keeps trying to tell Officer Moore that she didn’t do it and has no idea what the officer is talking about. Officer MacDonald keeps telling her that they need to focus on the facts because they know she is guilty! Each time she says she didn’t do it, they stop her from talking and say “we’re past that” and tell her that they need to know WHY she killed her brother-in-law. The officer is employing what step in the Reid model of interrogation?
a. Immediately confronting the suspect with his guilt.
b. Developing psychological themes to allow suspect to rationalize crime.
c. Drawing in the suspects attention to prevent them from withdrawing.
d. Presenting an alternative question to get the suspect to agree and confess.
e. Interrupting statements of denial to maintain control of the interrogation.
Interrupting statements of denial to maintain control of the interrogation.
Which of the following has been identified as a problem with the Reid model of interrogation?
a. The techniques included in the Reid model will rarely be approved of by the courts.
b. The Reid model incorrectly assumes that investigators can accurately detect when a suspect is lying.
c. The techniques used in the Reid model decrease the chance that people will falsely confess.
d. The Reid model has been classified as a soft approach to interrogations.
e. The Reid model does not allow officers to conduct interrogations when there is no physical evidence.
The Reid model incorrectly assumes that investigators can accurately detect when a suspect is lying.
The model of police interrogation used in North America is ___________ and the model used in Britain is ___________.
a. accusatorial, accusatorial
b. inquisitorial, admissible
c. inquisitorial, accusatorial
d. accusatorial, inquisitorial
e. inadmissible, admissible
accusatorial, inquisitorial
Brenda steals a turkey from the local grocery store. When interrogated by the police, she confesses to stealing the turkey. During her trial, the confession is thrown out because Brenda was not properly read her rights upon arrest. What term best describes this confession?
a. a coerced-compliant false confession
b. a coerced-internalized false confession
c. a retracted confession
d. a voluntary false confession
e. a disputed confession
a disputed confession
According to your textbook, the most common type of false confession is:
a. voluntary
b. coerced-compliant
c. coerced-internalized
d. retracted
e. disputed
coerced-compliant
An innocent suspect is interrogated for 22 hours about a life-threatening injury to her young infant. She keeps asking if she can go to the hospital to see her daughter, but is refused. The police investigator says that she can see her daughter when she confesses and that if she cooperates she will be given a lenient sentence. Although she knows she is innocent, she confesses. This is an example of a:
a. voluntary false confession
b. coerced-internalized false confession
c. coerced-compliant false confession
d. confabulated confession
e. true confession
coerced-compliant false confession
A man is accused of sexually abusing his one-year old daughter. He initially denies his involvement, but the police persist in telling him that “abusers often don’t remember their actions” and that it would help if he tried to visualize the abusive incidents. Although he did not commit these crimes, he comes to remember images of him engaging in abusive acts, and begins to believe he is guilty, so he confesses. This is an example of a:
a. voluntary false confession
b. coerced-internalized false confession
c. coerced-compliant false confession
d. confabulated confession
e. disputed confession
coerced-internalized false confession
Criminal profiling is likely to be least useful in cases involving:
a. serial homicide
b. serial rape
c. serial burglary
d. a serial offender with severe psychopathology
e. both b and c
serial burglary
