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lunatika

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In constructing a lineup, if non-witnesses consistently identify one person as the criminal, even though they never witnessed the crime, there is a problem with:
 
  a) the use of a relative judgment strategy.
   b) the use of an absolute judgment strategy.
   c) the functional size of the lineup.
   d) identification failure.

Question 2

Marcia was a witness to a crime. At the police state, she looked through many books of mug shots, hoping to identify the criminal. Two weeks later, the police asked her to come in and look at a lineup of criminals.
 
  Although the actual criminal was not in the lineup, Marcia identified one of the people in the lineup as the guy she saw commit the crime. Marcia was probably influenced by:
   a) misleading information that was encoded between the event and when she viewed the lineup.
   b) the emotional stress she experienced at the time of witnessing the crime.
   c) the previous mug shots that she saw.
   d) the number of people that were actually in the lineup.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c



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