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During an interrogation, a police detective tells a suspect, “Hey, listen – you punched him because you were angry.  That doesn’t make you a bad person.  I’m sure you didn’t mean to kill him … you probably just wanted to rough him up a bit.  We’ve all been in situations where we let our anger get the best of us.  You aren’t the first person to find yourself in this situation.  He probably shouldn’t have tried to pick a fight with you in the first place.”  This is an example of what Reid influence strategy?

Describe two potential solutions to false confessions that we discussed.  Label your response 1) and 2).

Extra Credit.  What is the most common type of false confession?

Research in the field of social psychology has discovered that people tend to _____ the impact of situational forces when describing others’ behavior.  This may cause people to believe that suspects in police custody would _____ to a crime they did not commit.

All of the following are true about the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) EXCEPT:

What is one reason why we often need to rely on children’s eyewitness testimony?

All of the following are true about the power of confessions EXCEPT:

Russano and colleagues (2005) used a “cheating” paradigm to examine false confessions.  They found that the use of both minimization and a deal during a mock interrogation:

The child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) is a theory for describing how children typically disclose when alleging repeated sexual abuse.  All of the following are components EXCEPT:

All of the following are true about the polygraph test EXCEPT: