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A Congressional committee is holding hearings on proposed legislation concerning polygraph use. Several experts on polygraphs have been asked to testify on various aspects of polygraphs, including their drawbacks.
 
  When the committee staff later summarizes this testimony on drawbacks what is the staff likely to write?
   a) Polygraphs are valid but not reliable.
   b) Polygraphs are very expensive to use.
   c) Very few people are trained to use polygraphs effectively.
   d) The use of polygraphs is associated with a high rate of false positives.

Question 2

Given that people with borderline personality disorder are impulsive, we would expect them to do poorly on tests that measure functioning of the
 
  a) frontal lobe.
  b) parietal lobe.
  c) occipital lobe.
  d) temporal lobe.



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Answer to Question 1

Sent you a PM please check your forum inbox. Thank you

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Sportsfan2111

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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