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- 1. Multiple Choice
How often are eyewitness testimonies correct?
25%
50%
75%
100%
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is one of the most important things law enforcement can do when presenting a photo array to a witness?
Label the back of the pictures
Make sure the person administering knows the suspect
Double blind administration
Put the suspects photo twice, in different clothes
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who is responsible for determining the standard for eyewitnesses
State
City
National
United Nations
- 4. Multiple Choice
In what year did the Supreme Court fail to establish a national standard?
2001
1996
2004
2012
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which is not an established, consisten variable that can affect eyewitness testimony
Estimator variables
System Variables
Internal Variables
All can effect
- 6. Multiple Choice
Fillers in a lineup should NOT match the description of the suspect to prevent confusion
True
False
- 7. Multiple Choice
A witness should be pressured to pick a perpetrator from the provided line up
true
false
- 8. Multiple Choice
"Studies show that eyewitnesses who were given confirmatory feedback on their identification inflated their recollections of the confidence they felt in their selections"
True
False
- 9. Multiple Choice
Identification procedures should be videotaped whenever possible.
True
False
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is episodic memory?
When someone only remembers things in episodes
Ability to remember TV shows
a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience
a person’s memory of a specific event will be exact from someone else’s recollection of the same experience like they had seen the same TV episdoe
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat is forensic science?When scientists improve plants by using DNAThe use of science in growing treesAny legal action that requires a police investigationWhen science is used for the purposes of the law
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhen a forensic scientist provides information in a criminal trial, the facts he or she presents are based on:Eyewitness accounts.Educated guesses.Circumstantial evidence.Scientific investigation.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceChain of custodythe documented and unbroken transfer of evidence(indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not to prove itthe first police officer to arrive at a crime scenesmall but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at crime scene
- 14. Multiple ChoiceCircumstantial evidence(indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not to prove itthe documented and unbroken transfer of evidencethe first police officer to arrive at a crime scenesmall but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at crime scene
- 15. Multiple Choiceclass evidencematerial that connects an indivisual or thing to a certain groupthe documented and unbroken transfer of evidence(indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not to prove itthe first police officer to arrive at a crime scene
- 16. Multiple ChoiceDirect evidenceevidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of crimethe documented and unbroken transfer of evidencea location where crime was took placeevidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of crime
- 17. Multiple Choicesecondary crime scenea location other than the primary crime scene, but that is in some way related to the crime, where evidence is foundthe documented and unbroken transfer of evidencea location where crime was took placesmall but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at crime scene
- 18. Multiple ChoicePrimary crime scenea location where crime was took placethe documented and unbroken transfer of evidence(indirect evidence) evidence used to imply a fact but not to prove itevidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of crime
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