When Polygraph Examiners Administer Polygraph Tests in Order to Detect

question 173

Multiple Choice

When polygraph examiners administer polygraph tests in order to detect lying

• A) they correctly identify liars at levels no better than chance.
• B) they often detect liars, but they also frequently incorrectly report honest people as lying.
• C) they often detect liars, and they rarely incorrectly report honest people as lying.
• D) they are as likely to report a lying person is honest as they are an honest person is lying.

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Definitions:

Alumni

Graduates or former students, especially of a particular school, college, or university.

Acoustic Coding

A process by which information is represented and remembered in the form of sound, important in verbal memory.

Long-term Memory

A type of memory capable of storing large amounts of information for long periods of time, sometimes indefinitely.

Simonides

Simonides was an ancient Greek lyric poet, credited with significant contributions to the mnemonics field, particularly the method of loci, an effective memory enhancement technique.