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vicotolentino

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Jury members tend to believe confident eyewitnesses. However, they really should only believe a very confident eyewitness when:
 
  a) the eyewitness identified the criminal in about 10 seconds.
   b) the eyewitness has been hypnotized.
   c) the eyewitness took more than 30 seconds to identify the criminal in a lineup.
   d) they should never believe a confident eyewitness because confidence is a poor predictor of memory.

Question 2

All of these characterize the cognitive interview except for:
 
  a) hypnosis.
   b) open-ended questions.
   c) elaborate retrieval cues that invoke the encoding specificity principle.
   d) techniques designed to make a witness comfortable.


kswal303

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a


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