After a Long Interrogation, an Innocent Suspect Comes to Believe

question 18

Multiple Choice

After a long interrogation, an innocent suspect comes to believe he has committed a crime despite having no memory of doing so. His interrogators have told him that he must have either "blacked out" during the commission of the crime or "repressed" his memory because the experience was so traumatic. His subsequent confession would be classified as an:

• A) instrumental-coerced confession.
• B) instrumental-voluntary confession.
• C) internalized-coerced confession.
• D) internalized-voluntary confession.

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Definitions:

Likert Scale

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