Suppose That Mlibo Was an Eyewitness to a Store Robbery

question 10

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Mlibo was an eyewitness to a store robbery.She gives the police a description of the criminal: '30-35 year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 5'10', with a missing finger on his left hand.' A few weeks later, police track down a suspect.He fits Mlibo's description, and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck.If police use the match-to-culprit approach in constructing a line-up for eyewitness identification, then the other people in the line-up ____.

• A)may or may not have brown hair
• B)will definitely have brown hair, but may or may not be missing fingers
• C)will definitely have brown hair and missing fingers, but may or may not have a tattoo
• D)will definitely have brown hair, missing fingers, and a tattoo

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Definitions:

Analogue Experiments

Research methods where conditions are artificially created to resemble real-life situations in order to study behaviors or outcomes.

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