In What Year Did the Supreme Court Decide That Polygraph

question 21

Multiple Choice

In what year did the Supreme Court decide that polygraph results were not admissible as evidence?

• A) 1990
• B) 1987
• C) 1982
• D) 1974

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Definitions:

Attributions

Explanations that individuals create for the causes of their own and others' behaviors and events.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underestimating the influence of situational factors.

Self-serving Bias

A common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Just-world Hypothesis

The cognitive bias that assumes that actions always yield morally fair and fitting consequences, essentially that the world is just.