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1
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what does the polygraph test assume

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that lying is accompanied by physiological activity within liars body

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what does the polygraph try to detect

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displays a direct representation of various types of bodily activity such as
sweating of fingers (GSR)
blood pressure
respiration

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what are problems with polygraphs

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potentially low base rates of deception
some people may react wrong eg. innocent reacts strongly or person who committed crime doesn’t react
polygraphers have to convince the suspect that the polygraph is a flawless detector of lies (this may involve lying which is not allowed in many jurisdictions )
lack of standardisation
countermeasures may be used by suspect
difficult to test the accuracy

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what is meant by a Lack of standardisation in polygraphs

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Scoring is subjective
Questions differ from test to test

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5
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types of Countermeasures may be used by suspect when getting a polygraph

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tongue biting
pressing toes on floor
counting backwards from 100
imaging either a calming scene or an arousing scene

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what percentage of Guilty suspects correctly classified as guilty

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84 – 92%

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what percentage of Innocent suspects correctly classified as innocent

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69.7%

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what percentage of Guilty suspects incorrectly classified as innocent

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9.7%

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9
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what percentage Innocent suspects incorrectly classified as guilty

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9 – 24%

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what percentage of Guilty suspects that cannot be classified

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11.8%

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what percentage of Innocent suspects that cannot be classified

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14.8%

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When verbal and nonverbal messages do not match:

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nonverbal behaviour the ‘better’ indicator of the truth (harder to control)

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why is it hard to control nonverbal communication

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Automatic links between emotions and nonverbal behaviours
eg. fear and automatic facial expression and body movement
People are unaware of what normal nonverbal behaviour is
People are not practised in controlling nonverbal behaviour

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14
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what is the Micro Expression Training Tool (METT)

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Trained to identify micro expressions, feedback, photos of faces with emotions,
large increases in accuracy with one-hour training

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15
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how many people are charged per year solely based on eyewitness evidence

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77,000

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in the UK what percentage of cases where only evidence was eyewitness led to a conviction

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74%

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Where can the memory go wrong?

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Acquisition or encoding stage
Retention or storage stage
Retrieval or recall stage

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how can memory go wrong in the Retrieval or recall stage

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forgetting, failure to communicate important items

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how can memory go wrong in the Retention or storage stage

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decay, forgetting, post-event feedback

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how can memory go wrong in the Acquisition or encoding stage

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not paying enough attention

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21
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in 36 of the first 40 cases the innocence projects examined what was the primary evidence

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eyewitness identification

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22
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how many DNA exornerations have happened

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356

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how many of the dna exonerations did they find the true suspect

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150

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how many years does the average innocent person serve

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how many cases were people sentenced to death before their innocence proven by dna
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percentage of exoneration cases when Eyewitness mistaken identification
63%
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what percentage of innocent cases involved false confessions
26%
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what percentage of wrongful convictions involved bad forensic science
52%
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How can psychology contribute to the legal system in the area of wrongful convictions
Assess the validity of an individual eyewitness Prevention of errors in the first place
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what are the Two types of variables that influence eyewitness errors
System variables Estimator variables
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what influences testimony
estimator variables system variables
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what are estimator variables
Beyond the control of the justice system Can only estimate the influence of the effect on a witness, not control it E.g., the weapon effect and environmental conditions
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what are System variables
The justice system has control of these E.g., the influence of lineup structure
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Estimator variables: Identification accuracy poorer if
Target less salient Short exposure duration Weapon present Crime ‘less’ serious Perpetrator opposite gender to witness Race Arousal
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Two main categories of research for system variables
Event memory Identification memory
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what is Identification memory
Ability to select perpetrator from a lineup
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what is Event memory
Memory for a critical event
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what percentage of US officers not trained in witness interviewing
98%
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what is the technique most likely to solve cases
witness interviewing
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Even when trained in interviewing witnesses, the officers don’t tend to use
the recall strategies
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what don't officers receive training for
conducting interviews with cooperative witnesses
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Errors made in police interviews that led to development of Cognitive Interview
Asking too many closed-ended questions and too few open-ended questions Frequently interrupting eyewitnesses in the middle of narrative responses Asking questions in a predetermined and inflexible order
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what does The Cognitive Interview aim to do
Attempts to enhance recall by improving elements of the interview: The social dynamics and communication between the interviewer and the eyewitness The eyewitness’s memory and other cognitive processes
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what percentage of improvement in information recalled due to the cognitive interview
Between 35% and 55% improvement in amount of information recalled vs police interview with no increase in incorrect information
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Cognitive Interview methods
Context Reinstatement Report Everything Change Perspective Reverse Order
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what is Context Reinstatement
What were the physical/personal contexts at time of crime?
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what is Report Everything
Include (perceived to be) irrelevant detail
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what is Change Perspective
Place yourself in shoes of someone else at the scene…..
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what is Reverse Order
Recall from a variety of chronological orders
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What could be wrong with Change perspective?
Hearsay Speculation Gives permission for witness to speculate/assume/conjecture Question is confusing for eyewitness Question is often confusing for officers Alternate viewpoint may disrupt/alter actual original memory
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what percentage of US law enforcement agencies have no written policy for construction and administration of photo line ups
64%
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what percentage of US law enforcement agencies have no written policy for construction and administration of live line ups
84%
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how many people per day end up as defendents because of photospreads or lineups
200 per day
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what should a lineup look like
A lineup should contain only one suspect and several other known-innocent people Fillers are selected based on similarity Fillers should fit the verbal description of the perpetrator Do not want to make them too similar or too different
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Instructions prior to viewing lineup
Eyewitnesses need to be told that the perpetrator may or may not be in the lineup
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what is the standard practice for lineups
simultaneous -Fillers and suspect presented at the same time
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what is the Sequential process for a lineup
Eyewitness is presented with one person at a time and must decide per person whether they are the perpetrator
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mistaken identity percentage for Sequential process
17%
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mistaken identity for simultaneous presentation
43%

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