Research Suggests That the Best Way to Encourage Truthful Testimony

question 198

Multiple Choice

Research suggests that the best way to encourage truthful testimony by children is to:

• A) try to avoid asking them leading questions.
• B) scold them if you believe that they are lying.
• C) reward them when they tell you that something happened.
• D) reassure them that their friends have had the same experiences.

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Definitions:

Inference

The process of drawing logical conclusions from premises or evidence.

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A statistical method for estimating the confidence interval of a parameter by resampling the original data with replacement.

Bootstrap Distribution

The distribution of a large number of bootstrap samples' statistics, used for estimating the shape of the true distribution of a statistic.

Normal

A term often used to describe data following a bell-shaped, symmetrical distribution around a central value, with predictable patterns as far as spread and outliers.