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Psychology of Investigations MCQ

_____ is known as confessions to crimes one did not commit, offered without coercion by others such as police or family members.

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Correct Answer: voluntary false confessions

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_____ is defined as occurs when a person seen in one situation is confused with a person seen in another situation.

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Correct Answer: unconscious transference

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_____ is tendency of people to exhibit the same behavior and tendencies across time.

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Correct Answer: trans-temporal consistency

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Is trans-situational consistency tendency of people to exhibit the same behavior and tendencies across different situations?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the process of collecting data on behavioral, personality, cognitive, and demographic data on previous offenders in an attempt to identify other offenders. Used to detect drug trafficking and terrorism-related criminal activity.

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Correct Answer: suspect-based profiling

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_____ is defined as identification procedure in which police present a single suspect to the eyewitness(es) to see if the person or persons will identify that individual as the perpetrator.

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Correct Answer: show-up

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_____ is a live or photo lineup in which a witness views individuals all at once, such as standing in a row or in a photo array. Compare with sequential lineup.

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Correct Answer: Simultaneous lineup

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Is sequential lineup a live or photo lineup in which a witness views individuals in a series, requiring the witness to decide on whether to identify one individual before moving on to another. Compare with simultaneous lineup?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the predominant method used by law enforcement in the United States to interview and interrogate criminal suspects. See also, accusatorial method.

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Correct Answer: reid method

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_____ is defined as reconstruction of the personality profile and cognitive features (especially intentions) after a person is deceased. Also called psycho­logical autopsy.

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Correct Answer: Reconstructive psychological evaluation (RPE)

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_____ is illegal singling out of someone (e.g., by law enforcement) solely on the basis of his or her race or ethnicity.

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Correct Answer: racial profiling

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Is psychological profiling the gathering of information on a known individual, generally one who poses a threat or is believed to be dangerous. Psychological profiles also may be prepared on public persona, such as presidents or historical figures?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as primarily undertaken in an effort to make a reasonable determination of what may have been in the mind of the deceased person leading up to and at the time of death—particularly if the death appears to be a suicide.

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Correct Answer: Psychological autopsy

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_____ is defined as the tendency of people to be able to discriminate between faces of their own race better than those of other races.

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Correct Answer: Own-race bias (ORB)

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_____ is enhancement or recovery of memory through non-hypnotic methods, such as free association, fantasy, and recall techniques.

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Correct Answer: non-hypnotic hypermnesia

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Is nomothetic approach refers to the search for general principles, relationships, and patterns by examining and combining data from many individuals. Compare with idiographic approach?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as actions and procedures an offender uses to commit a crime successfully.

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Correct Answer: Modus operandi (MO)

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_____ is defined as an investigative method that looks at similarities between crimes and attempts to connect them to the same offender.

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Correct Answer: linkage analysis

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_____ is umbrella term that refers to a scientific approach designed to improve our understanding of criminal behavior and the investigative process.

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Correct Answer: investigative psychology

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Is information-gathering approach a method of police interviewing and interrogation that does not presume guilt on the part of the person being questioned, but rather seeks to obtain information about events surrounding a crime. Compare with accusatorial approach?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as searching for general principles which can be applied to large groups by intense study of one individual. The detailed case study of one person illustrates an idiographic approach. Compare with nomothetic approach.

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Correct Answer: idiographic approach

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_____ is defined as effec­tive method of interrogation designed to acquire knowledge for intel­ligence and national security purposes.

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Correct Answer: HUMINT (HUManINTelligence) interrogation

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_____ is the perspective that hypnosis represents a special state of consciousness that promotes a high level of responsiveness to suggestion and changes in bodily feelings.

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Correct Answer: hypnotic trance theory

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Is hypnotic hypermnesia the enhancement or revival of memory through hypnosis?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a polygraph test that assesses the extent to which the polygraph examinee is aware of facts about a crime. See also control question technique (CQT). The GKT is pre­ferred by researchers, but is used less often by practicing polygraphers than the CQT.

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Correct Answer: Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT)

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_____ is defined as focuses on the location of the crime and how it relates to the residence or base of operations of the offender. Assumes that serial offenders prefer to commit their crimes near their own residences.

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Correct Answer: geographical profiling

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_____ is concerned with analyzing the spatial patterns of crimes committed by numerous offenders over a period of time.

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Correct Answer: geographical mapping

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Is false confessions admissions of guilt that are not valid and are often but not necessarily induced by coercive interrogation procedures?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as computerized or artist drawings of faces from information supplied by witnesses.

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Correct Answer: facial composites

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_____ is defined as reconstruction of the personality profile and cognitive features (especially intentions) of deceased persons when the cause of death is not clear. Also called psychological autopsy.

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Correct Answer: Equivocal death analysis (EDA)

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_____ is a lineup procedure in which neither the person making an identification nor the person administering the lineup knows the identity of the suspect.

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Correct Answer: double-blind lineup

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Is differential experience hypothesis states that individuals will have greater familiarity or experience with members of their own race and will thus—in identification procedures—be better able to discern differences among members of their own race?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a broad term for the investigation of crime. May or may not include crime scene profiling.

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Correct Answer: criminal investigative analysis

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_____ is defined as the development of a rough behavioral or psychological sketch of an offender based on clues identified at the crime scene.

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Correct Answer: crime scene profiling

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_____ is the most preferred procedure by professional polygraphers in cases requiring the inves­tigation of specific incidents, such as criminal acts. Compare with Guilty Knowledge Test.

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Correct Answer: Control question technique (CQT)

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Is confirmation bias the tendency to look for evidence that confirms one’s preexisting expectations or beliefs?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as characteristic of a police lineup that unfairly encourages a witness to identify the suspect in custody (e.g., no lineup members approximate the suspect’s age).

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Correct Answer: composition bias

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_____ is defined as the phenomenon that once a witness commits to a certain viewpoint, such as identification of a face, the witness is less likely to change his or her mind.

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Correct Answer: commitment bias

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_____ is related to hypnosis, this is the perspective that hypnotic participants are not in an altered state of consciousness but rather are playing a role suggested by the hypnotist.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive-behavioral viewpoint

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Is cognitive load during police interviewing and interrogation, this refers to the cognitive demands placed on the interviewee, with the premise that this will make it more difficult for the interviewee to be deceptive. An example would be asking the person to recount events of the past day in reverse order of when they occurred?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is method of interviewing and inter­rogation that asks questions the suspect does not anticipate.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive lie detection

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Is cognitive interview (CI) method of interviewing that uses memory retrieval and various communication techniques aimed at increasing the amount of accurate information from witnesses and victims. Its goal is to make the interviewee aware of all events that happened in a situation?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as admissions of guilt most likely to occur after prolonged and intense interrogation experiences, such as when sleep deprivation is a feature. The suspect, in desperation to avoid further discomfort, admits to the crime even knowing that he or she is innocent.

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Correct Answer: Coerced-compliant false confessions

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_____ is defined as these occur when innocent persons—who are tired, confused, and highly psycho­logically vulnerable—come to believe that they actually committed the crime.

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Correct Answer: Coerced-internalized false confessions

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_____ is predictions of behavior (e.g., violence) that are based primarily on clinical knowledge rather than on statistical or actuarial data. Compare with actuarial predictions and structured professional judgment (SPJ).

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Correct Answer: clinical predictions

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Is actuarial predictions these are predictions that employ statistics to identify certain facts about a person’s background and known behavior that can be related to the behavior being predicted, based on how groups of individuals with similar characteristics have acted in the past?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is in police interrogation, an aggressive questioning procedure that assumes the suspect is responsible for a criminal offense and has the goal of obtaining a confession. Compare with information-gathering approach.

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Correct Answer: accusatorial approach

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An identification procedure in which neither the witness nor the person administering the lineup knows the true suspect is called a ______.

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Correct Answer: Double-blind lineup

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Which statement about interrogation of juveniles is correct?

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Correct Answer: Adolescents are prone to give false confessions due to their immaturity.

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Polygraphs are mostly used in ______.

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Correct Answer: Personnel screening in government agencies

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The preference to have one’s views confirmed is referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Confirmation bias

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Sarah is quiet and reserved in her kindergarten class yet chatty and outgoing at home. Sarah’s behavior indicates a lack of ______.

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Correct Answer: Trans-situational consistency

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Psychological profiling refers to gathering data on ______ individuals utilizing ______.

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Correct Answer: Known; tests and interviews

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If a confession is to be used as evidence, it must be freely and voluntarily given.

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Correct Answer: True

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An equivocal death analysis is also called a psychological autopsy.

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Correct Answer: True

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A case study is an example of a(n) ______ approach.

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Correct Answer: Idiographic

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The predominant method of interrogation used in the United States is called ______.

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Correct Answer: The Reid method

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Compared to typical forensic interrogations, HUMINT interrogations are ______.

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Correct Answer: Conducted by a team

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Racial profiling is an example of psychological profiling.

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Correct Answer: False

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Which type of profiling is associated with Rossmo’s hunting patterns theory?

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Correct Answer: Geographical profiling

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According to Canter and Alison (2000), three fundamental psychological questions characterize all criminal investigations. Which of the following is one of these questions?

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Correct Answer: Are there any other crimes that are likely to have been committed by the same person?

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All of the following are categories of profiling except ______.

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Correct Answer: Confirmation profiling

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