Exam 3: Section 2: Lie Detection

The comparison question test (CQT) posits that guilty individuals react more strongly to _____ questions, whereas innocent individuals react more strongly to _____ questions.

Elena was suspected of committing a fraud. Investigators asked her to tell her story in reverse. This promising lie-detection technique is based on the idea that narrating backwards:

Some promising low-tech methods of lie detection include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

GKT is one of the most promising polygraph techniques to date. However, there are some limitations to its usefulness. One of these limitations is that:

When police detectives were assessed as to their ability to detect lies, according to the text, they were _____ likely to correctly assess the truthfulness of videotaped statements compared with college students.

The guilty knowledge test (GKT) uses a multiple-choice question format. When answers are provided, _____ is usually _____.

According to the text, an EEG reads neural impulses _____, whereas the fMRI reads brain activity _____.

There are several problems with polygraph techniques that use the standard procedures like CQT. Which of the following is NOT one of these problems?

The technique that uses systematic analysis of written statements to assess the credibility of statements related to a particular event is called:

The polygraph may be used as a _____ tactic to evoke _____.

Credibility assessment is also referred to as:

_____ measures almost imperceptible changes in the heat of the human face.

If a person is lying, the polygraph can pick up the following changes in his or her physiological functions EXCEPT:

The federal Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 prohibited the use of polygraph by:

Techniques such as biting the tongue, pressing the toes to the floor, or counting backwards are all examples of:

According to research completed by Bond and DePaulo (2006), people's ability to distinguish lies has a _____ rate of accuracy, and efforts to improve people's ability to discern lies have _____.

Jared was questioning a suspect using the Reid technique, and after a long and exhausting interrogation, the suspect falsely confessed to the crime just to put an end to the interrogation. When hearing this confession, Jared felt even more confident that the suspect was guilty. This is an illustration of the phenomenon that psychologists call:

Training people to detect lies _____ their ability _____ their confidence in their ability to discern lies.

According to a study by Kassin and his colleagues (2005), police detectives were _____ to evaluate false confessions as true.