Question 1

Researchers have found that eyewitnesses' accuracy can improve when

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A)   interrogators delay the interview at least one week.
B)   the witnesses scan a group of mug shots or a composite drawing before reviewing a line-up.
C)   they are presented with a sequence of individual people, one by one, instead of being presented with a group of photos or a line-up.
D)   the seriousness of the crime is highlighted.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 2

After Ceci and Bruck produced false memories in a group of preschool children, the children were interviewed by a professional psychologist. Following the interview,

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A)   children realized that their memories were false.
B)   children were less anxiety-prone than before the interview.
C)   the psychologist could not reliably separate real from false memories.
D)   the psychologist could reliably identify the false memories.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 3

One recommendation toward improving jurors' ability to understand judicial instructions and statistical information (or any complex information)  is to

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A)   remind them that they must remember the appropriate evidence to use in deliberations.
B)   give them access to transcripts of the information.
C)   instruct them to pay attention to all the information regardless of its relevance.
D)   not provide them with any instructions that may interfere with their cognitive processing.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 4

Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is false?

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A)   Eyewitnesses' certainty about what they have seen is closely related to their accuracy.
B)   Confident witnesses are more believable to jurors than those lacking confidence.
C)   Incorrect witnesses are virtually as confident as correct witnesses.
D)   In the United States alone, some 80,000 trials a year hinge on eyewitness testimony.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Under which of the following conditions would you be most likely to avoid making a false identification of a police suspect in a line-up?

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A)   If you had previously made a false identification.
B)   If you had previously made a positive identification.
C)   If you were told that the suspect may not be in the line-up.
D)   If you were told that the suspect was definitely in the line-up.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 6

In the process known as the misinformation effect, individuals

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A)   give misleading testimony in court.
B)   receive incorrect information about an event and then incorporate that information into their memory for the event.
C)   provide incorrect information to police.
D)   fail to remember any information following a traumatic event.E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 7

Jurors think that an eyewitness who can recall trivial details such as how many pictures were hanging in the room probably

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A)   gained information about these details by a second visit to the crime scene and thus is less credible.
B)   was paying better attention than one who recalls no details.
C)   was not paying attention to the culprit or the crime itself.
D)   is no more accurate in recalling important information than witnesses with no memory for details.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Hastie, Penrod, and Pennington showed participants re-enactments of an actual murder case, and asked them to deliberate until they agreed on a verdict. Prior to group deliberation, jurors who thought the defendant was guilty preferred a verdict of _______________; after deliberation, they preferred a verdict of _________________.

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A)   second-degree murder; manslaughter
B)   manslaughter; second-degree murder
C)   first-degree murder; second-degree murder
D)   manslaughter; not guiltyE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 9

When Fisher and his colleagues trained detectives to use the "cognitive interview" procedure for questioning eyewitnesses,

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A)   accuracy and confidence of eyewitnesses increased.
B)   the amount of information elicited from eyewitnesses increased 50%.
C)   false memory rate increased 50%.
D)   false memory rate increased slightly, but confidence increased dramatically.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 10

Research suggests that jury deliberations can be influenced by all of the following processes except

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A)   group polarization.
B)   minority influence.
C)   deindividuation.
D)   informational influence.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 11

Although it goes against findings by social psychologists, a panel of judges declared that the level of ________________ by eyewitnesses should be taken into account when determining the accuracy of their testimony.

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A)   sincerity
B)   certainty
C)   intelligence
D)   detailE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 12

Lindsay, Wells, and Rumpel staged the same calculator theft under conditions that sometimes gave witnesses a clear view of the thief and sometimes didn't. When conditions were so poor that most witnesses misidentified an innocent person, _____ of the jurors believed the witness.

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A)   none
B)   fewer than half
C)   more than half
D)   almost allE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 13

Research has demonstrated that jurors have a hard time shifting their standards from "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" during the trial to _______________________ during the sentencing phase.

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A)   balance of probabilities
B)   clear and convincing evidence
C)   preponderance of the evidence
D)   beyond a reasonable doubtE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 14

Research suggests that minorities are most likely to sway the majority

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A)   when the minority favours conviction.
B)   when the minority favours acquittal.
C)   when the minority is composed of women.
D)   when the minority is composed of Whites.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 15

Research suggests that jurors in the minority will be most persuasive when they

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A)   are consistent.
B)   are self-confident.
C)   win defections from the majority.
D)   all of these choices.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Wells, Lindsay, and their colleagues staged the theft of a calculator hundreds of times before eyewitnesses. In attempting to determine whether people could spot erroneous testimony, the researchers had mock jurors observe the eyewitnesses being questioned. Results indicated that the jurors believed correct eyewitnesses _____ percent of the time and incorrect eyewitnesses _____ percent of the time.

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A)   60; 40
B)   60; 20
C)   80; 62
D)   80; 80E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 17

Research indicates that jurors are more likely to be persuaded when attorneys present evidence

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A)   in the order of a narrative story.
B)   in the form of testing a hypothesis in an experiment.
C)   by numerically listing their specific arguments.
D)   without interpretation or drawing conclusions from it.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

How persuasive is eyewitness testimony? Discuss what research by Wells and others has found with respect to how eyewitness testimony influences the jury by its presence, accuracy, conditions, and detail.

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Question 19

After witnessing an accident between a red car and a green car, Asha is sure the green car's driver was at fault. Why might Asha change her testimony after being visited two days later by the pleasant, attractive lawyer for the green car's driver?

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A)   She is lying to attract the lawyer's attention.
B)   In the two days, she has had time to accurately recall the events.
C)   She would like to please the lawyer, and so comes to believe her new testimony.
D)   All of these choices.E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 20

Rob was part of a psychology experiment where he was asked to repeatedly recall a childhood event that never happened to him (i.e., breaking his leg on the playground) . By the end of the experiment, he remembered details of this event. Some researchers have called this process

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A)   the misinformation effect.
B)   confidence malleability.
C)   memory repression.
D)   imagination inflation.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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