When One Study Compared Police Detectives and College Students in Their

question 9

Multiple Choice

When one study compared police detectives and college students in their ability to detect whether prisoners were telling the truth in staged videotaped confessions, which was NOT one of the findings?

• A) The police were more likely to judge false confessions as true than the students were.
• B) The police were not as effective as the students in distinguishing between true and false confessions.
• C) The police were almost 15 percent more accurate than the students at distinguishing true from false confessions.
• D) The students performed only slightly better than chance at detecting true and false confessions.

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