Which of the following is most true about research on social psychology and the law?
a. In police interrogations, people sometimes confess to a crime they did not commit and even come to believe that they did commit the crime.
b. When jury deliberations begin, if a couple of jurors disagree with everyone else, they are easily able to persuade the majority to change from a guilty to a not-guilty verdict.
c. People have pretty good memories for events they witness, and it is hard to convince them that they saw something they did not.
d. If a witness picks a suspect out of a lineup and is extremely confident that he or she has identified the right person, then he or she is almost certainly correct.
Question 2
The recommendation that the police investigator who administers a lineup should not know which person is the suspect is
a. not supported by psychological research findings.
b. intended to prevent post-identification feedback.
c. likely to make the own-race bias worse.
d. the best solution to the problems caused by witness verbalization.
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