A Polygraph Examination of a Suspected Murderer Included an Assessment

question 322

Multiple Choice

A polygraph examination of a suspected murderer included an assessment of his reaction to details regarding the victim's clothing and death wounds-details that would be known only to a person at the scene of the crime.The investigators were using

• A) subliminal stimulation.
• B) the spillover effect.
• C) the guilty knowledge test.
• D) the Yerkes-Dodson law.

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Definitions:

Automatic Emotional Responses

Immediate and unconscious emotional reactions to certain stimuli or situations without deliberate thought.

Joseph LeDoux

A neuroscientist known for his work on survival circuits, including mechanisms of fear and emotion in the brain.

Cognitive Reactions

Mental processes as responses to external stimuli, involving perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning.

Emotional Reactions

The spontaneous and subjective feelings triggered by specific stimuli or events.