Forensic Psychology 2022
True or False: Criminal Profiling Steps
-Connect Data
/Organize Data/
Reconstruct the behavior of victim and offender
Formulate initial description of most likely suspect Correct Answer: True
What are the three steps involved in criminal profiling?
PI, DPM, CA Correct Answer: profiling inputs, decision process models, crime assessment
first stage involves collecting all information available about the crime.
-steps in criminal profiling Correct Answer: profiling inputs
profiler organizes the input.
-steps in criminal profiling
DPM Correct Answer: decision process models
on the basis of the findings in step 2, the profiler attempts to reconstruct the behavior of the offender
and the victim.
-steps in criminal profiling
ca Correct Answer: crime assessment
more radical reform would reconceptualize the fundamental nature of police interrogations.
Researchers have found that the nonconfrontational U.K.-type interviews produce fewer false
confessions and more true confessions than accusatory interrogations. Correct Answer: reforming
system to prevent false confessions
Interrogation Itself: Correct Answer:
During the interrogation itself, police uses _________ incentives and positive __________. Correct
Answer: negative, positive
-used during interrogation to break someone down- attack/accuse the suspect, instill feelings of fear
Correct Answer: negative incentives
, used during interrogation to try to try to motivate the suspect to show the admission is in their best
interest Correct Answer: positive inducements
used during interrogation; accusations, evidence fabrications, attacks on the subject's denials) to break
down a suspect's defenses, lower his or her resistance, and instill feelings of fear, despair, and
powerlessness.
ni Correct Answer: negative incentives
used during interrogation; motivate the suspect to see that an admission is in his or her best interest.
Correct Answer: positiveinducments
After the suspect has implicitly or explicitly agreed to talk, the interrogation becomes ___________.
-Interrogators frequently challenge denials that suspects make.
-Interrogators present __________ ____________. Even if interrogators have no evidence of suspects'
wrongdoing, they can make them believe that they do. Correct Answer: accusatorial, fabricated
evidence
interrogators have no evidence of suspects' wrongdoing, they can make them believe that they do.
I have you on video and we can show you in the back"
- Make up evidence to see their reaction Correct Answer: fabricated evidence
After the suspect agrees to talk, then you begin to __________ the suspect. Correct Answer: accuse
: looking for certain behavior and find behaviors that confirm that belief ; See what you wanna see
Once someone confesses, you see everything in that light Correct Answer: behavioral confirmation
An Empirical Look at Interrogation Tactics
True or False: Innocent people waive their Miranda rights, how interrogators' presumption of guilt
affects the nature of the questioning.
The detective's presumption of guilt can lead to behavioral confirmation. The detective will seek out
information that verifies that belief, overlook conflicting data, and behave in a manner that conforms to
the belief. . In turn, the suspect behaves in ways that support that belief. Correct Answer: True
detective will seek out information that verifies that belief, overlook conflicting data, and behave in a
manner that conforms to the belief. ; Correct Answer: behavioral confirmation
-Recording all police interrogations can provide a complete, objective, and reviewable record of how the
suspect was questioned.
True or False: Criminal Profiling Steps
-Connect Data
/Organize Data/
Reconstruct the behavior of victim and offender
Formulate initial description of most likely suspect Correct Answer: True
What are the three steps involved in criminal profiling?
PI, DPM, CA Correct Answer: profiling inputs, decision process models, crime assessment
first stage involves collecting all information available about the crime.
-steps in criminal profiling Correct Answer: profiling inputs
profiler organizes the input.
-steps in criminal profiling
DPM Correct Answer: decision process models
on the basis of the findings in step 2, the profiler attempts to reconstruct the behavior of the offender
and the victim.
-steps in criminal profiling
ca Correct Answer: crime assessment
more radical reform would reconceptualize the fundamental nature of police interrogations.
Researchers have found that the nonconfrontational U.K.-type interviews produce fewer false
confessions and more true confessions than accusatory interrogations. Correct Answer: reforming
system to prevent false confessions
Interrogation Itself: Correct Answer:
During the interrogation itself, police uses _________ incentives and positive __________. Correct
Answer: negative, positive
-used during interrogation to break someone down- attack/accuse the suspect, instill feelings of fear
Correct Answer: negative incentives
, used during interrogation to try to try to motivate the suspect to show the admission is in their best
interest Correct Answer: positive inducements
used during interrogation; accusations, evidence fabrications, attacks on the subject's denials) to break
down a suspect's defenses, lower his or her resistance, and instill feelings of fear, despair, and
powerlessness.
ni Correct Answer: negative incentives
used during interrogation; motivate the suspect to see that an admission is in his or her best interest.
Correct Answer: positiveinducments
After the suspect has implicitly or explicitly agreed to talk, the interrogation becomes ___________.
-Interrogators frequently challenge denials that suspects make.
-Interrogators present __________ ____________. Even if interrogators have no evidence of suspects'
wrongdoing, they can make them believe that they do. Correct Answer: accusatorial, fabricated
evidence
interrogators have no evidence of suspects' wrongdoing, they can make them believe that they do.
I have you on video and we can show you in the back"
- Make up evidence to see their reaction Correct Answer: fabricated evidence
After the suspect agrees to talk, then you begin to __________ the suspect. Correct Answer: accuse
: looking for certain behavior and find behaviors that confirm that belief ; See what you wanna see
Once someone confesses, you see everything in that light Correct Answer: behavioral confirmation
An Empirical Look at Interrogation Tactics
True or False: Innocent people waive their Miranda rights, how interrogators' presumption of guilt
affects the nature of the questioning.
The detective's presumption of guilt can lead to behavioral confirmation. The detective will seek out
information that verifies that belief, overlook conflicting data, and behave in a manner that conforms to
the belief. . In turn, the suspect behaves in ways that support that belief. Correct Answer: True
detective will seek out information that verifies that belief, overlook conflicting data, and behave in a
manner that conforms to the belief. ; Correct Answer: behavioral confirmation
-Recording all police interrogations can provide a complete, objective, and reviewable record of how the
suspect was questioned.
