A Polygraph Examination of a Suspected Murderer Included an Assessment

question 182

Multiple Choice

A polygraph examination of a suspected murderer included an assessment of his reaction to details regarding the victim's clothing and death wounds-details that would be known only to a person at the scene of the crime.The investigators were using:

• A) appraisal.
• B) the spillover effect.
• C) the guilty knowledge test.
• D) the two-factor theory.

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