ZCT Flashcards
Who designed the ZCT?
Grover Cleveland “Clever” Backster Jr.
Principles of ZCT
Comparison question technique
Technique uniformity
Reduces no opinion results
Psychology of ZCT
Technique is designed to pose a threat to the examined and force them to focus attention on specific questions in the test structure
Psychological set for ZCT
Phenomenon gives rise to the differential arousal to relevant and comparison questions for deceptive and truthful examines - focus attention to the issue with the greater threat - truthful comparison guilty relevant
super dampening
Examine is more concerned about an outside issue than any relevant or comparison issue
anti-climax dampening
Examined focuses on one question over all others
Question types
Irrelevant Relevant Comparison Symptomatic Sacrifice relevant
Question string in ZCT
x Irrelevant Sac relevant Symptomatic Comparison prim relevant Comparison - broadest Primary relevant Symptomatic Comparison Secondary Relevant xx
colors
IRR - yellow Sac relevant - yellow or red Relevant - red Comparison - green Symptomatic - black
Question introduction order
Sac relevant - then R5, R7, R10
C6, C4, C9
Irrelevant
SYM8 and SYM3
DI score
-6 or -3 in any one analysis spot
NDI score
+1 in all spots and +6 total
ZCT You phase differences
Secondary relevant R10 removed SYM8 moved to SYM9 C9 now C8 - every relevant has two comparisons
You phase scoring DI
-4 grand total or -3 in any spot
You phase ND
+4 total and +1 in each spot
