Research Is an Important Part of Understanding How Eyewitness Accounts

question 12

Multiple Choice

Research is an important part of understanding how eyewitness accounts are derived. As such, a range of factors are often considered. Such factors as the procedures for constructing lineups and questioning witnesses are called:

• A) system variables.
• B) dependent variables.
• C) independent variables.
• D) estimator variables.

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Definitions:

Equity

When people receive rewards in proportion to the contributions they make toward the attainment of group goals.

Generalized Exchange

A type of social interchange where goods or services are provided to one member of a group without the expectation of a direct reciprocal action from the receiver.

Reciprocal

Pertaining to a mutual exchange or relationship in which both parties give and receive something of value.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people when the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.