A. While controlled experimental studies suggest that violence results in better witness accurancy, field studies of real- life witnesses are exposed to highly violent events do not give very accurate testimony.
B. The phenomenon of ‘weapons focus’ occur only when the central detail is a gun.
C. Although it is interesting to understand the impact on witness memory of factors such as the type of crime, it is not critical because what is encoded during acquisition does not from the basis for what is stored in memory and eventually retrieved when giving testimony.
D. None of the above.
Forensic Psychology
Forensic Psychology
A. Retrieval
B. Eyewitness testimony
C. Crime
D. Criminal investigations
E. Maintaining violent behavior
A. Criminals
B. Leadings
C. Watching car aaccidents
D. Cognitive interviews
E. visual depictions of accidents
A. Do the findings from psychological studies parallel what happens to real crime witnesses?
B. Should research findings be made available to the court to influence real trials?
C. Both a and b.
D. Neither a nor b.
A. Leadings questions
B. Change perspective
C. Reporting everything
D. Context reinstatement
E. Reverse order
A. Preparing a story on the spot
B. Being original
C. Not experiencing ability
D. Not experiencing emotion
E. Eloquent storyteller
A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as ‘clinical’ in style while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’.
B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge.
C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence.
D. Profiling common characteristics of know offenders involves gathering data about the crime from multiple sources.
A. Antisocial behavior
B. History of mental illness
C. Family criminality
D. A and C
E. All of the above
A. Cognitive interviews
B. Offender profiling
C. Being community- based
D. Focus on the relationship with parents
E. There are no successful treatment programs for offenders
A. Indiscriminate of treatment programme helps to reduce recidivism.
B. The type of treatment programme is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioural and multi- model approaches.
C. The most successful studies, while behavioural in nature, include a cognitive component.
D. The most effective programmes have low treatment integrity.
