A Polygraph Examination of a Suspected Murderer Included an Assessment

question 205

Multiple Choice

A polygraph examination of a suspected murderer included an assessment of his reaction to a detailed description of 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 making use of the

• A) unit bias.
• B) facial feedback effect.
• C) guilty knowledge test.
• D) Yerkes-Dodson law.

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