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Ricardo is conducting research to determine the effectiveness of the D.A.R.E. program. This is an example of the following role played by a psychologist in the legal system:

In the United States, the following interrogation techniques are legal EXCEPT:

According to the text, profiling is regarded as a mostly _____ technique.

Two components of the presumed child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) are the denial of abuse and recantation of abuse. Researchers who analyzed actual interviews with sexually abused children found that, in reality, the denial and recantation of abuse:

Suggestive questioning of children is most likely to _____, and can lead to _____ prompted by repetitive questions.

Research by Kassin and his colleagues has shown that even when _____ had no problem recognizing that a confession was coerced, they still voted _____ more often.

Unlike other polygraph tests, the guilty knowledge test (GKT):

The main similarity between Bertillon’s anthropometry and modern biometrics is that both:

Since the 1960s and throughout the present time, an interrogator in the United States would be likely to use all of the following forms of coercion to elicit confessions, EXCEPT:

Hearsay testimony is sometimes admissible in trials where a child is the alleged victim because: