Much research has been dedicated to improving the reliability of eyewitness testimony. One finding reveals that when constructing a lineup,
a. increasing similarity between fillers and a suspect leads to an increased level of erroneous identification ofinnocent people.
b. increasing similarity between fillers and a suspect leads to an increased level of missed identification ofsome guilty suspects.
c. increasing the number of fillers from 5 to 7 actually decreases the rate of false positive identifications.
d. decreasing the number of fillers from 6 to 3 actually increases the rate of false positive identifications.
Question 2
Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that
a. highly confident eyewitnesses are usually accurate.
b. it is unnecessary to warn an eyewitness that a suspect may or may not be in a lineup.
c. when viewing a lineup, an eyewitness's confidence in her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority's confirmation of her choice, even when the choice is wrong.
d. despite public misconception, eyewitnesses are usually very accurate when selecting a perpetrator from a lineup.
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