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**Test Bank and Solutions for ForensicPsychology, 6th Canadian Edition by Joanna
Pozzulo**
**Chapter 01: An Introduction to Forensic Psychology**
**Chapter 01 Multiple Choice Questions**
1. Alfred Binet conducted a series of studies on how question types influence the accuracy of child eyewitness reports.
What did he find?
A) He found that direct question types result in the most accurate answers.
B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers.
C) He found that highly misleading questions result in the most accurate answers.
D) He found that free recall results in the least accurate answers.
E) He found that eyewitness accuracy did not vary across question type.
**Difficulty:** Moderate
**Question ID:** 01-1-01
**Objective:** 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
**Answer:** B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers.
2. A professor arranges for a friend to enter her classroom, steal her book, and run out. The researcher then asks her
students to provide a description of the “offender” in an effort to study eyewitness recall. What is this an example of?
A) A verifiable experiment
B) A virtual experiment
C) A reality experiment
, D) A misinformation test
E) A subjective recall test
**Difficulty:** Easy
**Question ID:** 01-1-02
**Objective:** 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
**Answer:** C) A reality experiment
3. In 1911, Julian Varendonck, a Belgian psychologist, served as an expert witness in a case where two children were
repeatedly interviewed as witnesses in relation to the murder of their friend Cecile. Varendonck studied the effect of
suggestive questioning on child testimony. What did he testify in court?
A) Child witnesses are likely accurate and resistant to suggestion.
B) Child witnesses are likely told what to say by their parents.
C) Child witnesses do not have the vocabulary required to provide useful information.
D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
E) Child witnesses are fantasy-prone.
**Difficulty:** Moderate
**Question ID:** 01-1-03
**Objective:** 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology
**Answer:** D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
4. Place the following events in chronological order:
1. Cattell conducts some of the first experiments in North America on the psychology of testimony.
2. APA recognizes forensic psychology as a specialty discipline.
3. Hugo Munsterberg publishes On the Witness Stand.
4. The U.S. Supreme Court lays out the Daubert criteria for determining when scientific evidence should be admitted in
court.
A) 4, 2, 3, 1
B) 3, 4, 2, 1
C) 4, 3, 2, 1
D) 1, 2, 3, 4
E) 1, 3, 4, 2
**Difficulty:** Hard
**Question ID:** 01-1-04
**Objective:** 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology
**Answer:** E) 1, 3, 4, 2
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