All of the following refers to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for:

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1. The following qualities make a good liar except for:

   A. Preparing a story on the spot B. Being original C. Not experiencing ability D. Not experiencing emotion E. Eloquent storyteller...

2. Research examining witness memory has shown that after watching a traffic accident, if the car was described as “smashed”, then the witness was more likely to say that she had seen broken glass.This type of research has informed us about the influence of:

   A. Criminals B. Leadings C. Watching car aaccidents D. Cognitive interviews E. visual depictions of accidents...

3. Which of the following is true when it comes to coerced internalization?

   A. The essential element in a coerced- internalized confession is the suspect’s memory for events is correct and that the police version must therefore be false. B. This type of confession is the direct opposite of cognitive dissonance. C. Gudjonsson’s notion of interrogative suggestibility consider the extent to which people still maintain their responses despite...

4. Which of the following are include in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?

   A. Overly harsh or lax parenting style. B. Criminality in the family. C. Low intelligence. D. All of the above....

5. As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?

   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....

6. Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

   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...

7. An issue that is boarder than the strength of the evidence concerns its validity when applied to the real world. Bearing that in mind, which of the following would be relevants to ask?

   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....

8. Which of the following statements is correct in relation to acquisition?

   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...

9. The desire for notoriety, guilt feelings and the desire to protect someone else describe the psychology contributing to which forensic outcome?

   A. Coerced confession B. Coerced compliance C. Voluntary confession D. Voluntary compliance E. A and B...

10. Which extensive, longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

    A. Aggression replacement training B. What Works program C. Statement validity assessment D. The stanford study E. The Cambridge study...