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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. - b) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers.

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 - c) A reality experiment

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 of 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. - d) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and
prone to suggestion.

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 - e) 1,3,4,2

,Which psychologist conducted some of the first experiments in the United States on
eyewitness testimony?

A) Wundt
B) Cattell
C) Binet
D) Stern
E) Von Schrenck-Notzing - B) Cattell

In Binet's studies on the suggestibility of child testimony, what type of technique
produced the most accurate recall?

A) Cued recall
B) Direct questioning
C) Report everything instruction
D) Asking mildly misleading questions
E) Reverse-order recall - C) Report everything instruction

What, based on von Schrenck-Notzing's research, is the impact of extensive pretrial
press coverage on the eyewitness testimony called?

A) Post-event misinformation
B) Memory contamination
C) Source monitoring errors
D) Exposure distortion
E) Retroactive memory falsification - E) Retroactive memory falsification

In 1906, Hugo Munsterberg worked on the criminal case of a young disabled man
(Richard Ivens) from Chicago. As part of this work, what did Munsterberg examine?

A) Eyewitness testimony accuracy
B) Criminal responsibility
C) Mental health records
D) Interrogation records
E) Juror selection methods - D) Interrogation records

9. Which of the following psychologists would be most interested in the expert testimony
provided by von Schrenck-Notzing in 1896?

A) A psychologist interested in the diagnosis of juvenile delinquents
B) A psychologist interested in the effect of pre-trial press coverage
C) A psychologist interested in the problems with hypnotic interviewing
D) A psychologist interested in the accuracy of child eyewitnesses
E) A psychologist interested in lie detection - B) A psychologist interested in the effect of
pre-trial press coverage

, Which of the following psychologists would be most interested in the expert testimony
provided by Varendonck in 1911?

A) A psychologist interested in the diagnosis of juvenile delinquents
B) A psychologist interested in the effect of pre-trial press coverage
C) A psychologist interested in the problems with hypnotic interviewing
D) A psychologist interested in the accuracy of child eyewitnesses
E) A psychologist interested in factors that influence jury decision making - D) A
psychologist interested in the accuracy of child eyewitnesses

According to Sheldon's (1949) constitutional theory, which of the following types of
individuals are most likely to become involved with crime?

A) Ectomorphs
B) Mesomorphs
C) Those with lesions in the temporal lobe
D) Those having experienced maternal deprivation
E) Men with two Y chromosomes - B) Mesomorphs

According to Sutherland's (1939) dierential association theory, what is a crime the result
of?

A) Poverty
B) Labelling
C) Learning
D) Socio-economic strain
E) High levels of extraversion and neuroticism - C) Learning

According to Eysenck, which of the following would be at risk for criminal behaviour?

A) Someone with good conditionability
B) Someone with low levels of extraversion and neuroticism
C) Someone with high levels of extraversion and neuroticism
D) Someone who is easy to socialize
E) Someone with low self-control - C) Someone with high levels of extraversion and
neuroticism

Which of the following is the correct pairing of psychologist(s) to theory?

A) Sheldon - strain theory
B) Eysenck - chromosomal theory
C) Akers - social learning theory
D) Gottfredson and Hirschi - biosocial theory
E) Sutherland - dyscontrol theory - C) Akers - social learning theory

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