When It Comes to Eyewitness Identifications in Police Lineups, Sequential

question 10

Multiple Choice

When it comes to eyewitness identifications in police lineups, sequential lineups are generally preferred to simultaneous lineups-especially when witnesses ____.

• A) do not know how many people are in the lineup
• B) are told in advance how many people are in the lineup
• C) are asked to rate the similarity of each person in the lineup to the criminal
• D) are asked to rank each person in the lineup in order of his or her similarity to the criminal

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