Vocabulary
Based on facts and evidence instead of personal feelings.
What is objective?
The factor deliberately changed by the investigator.
What is the independent variable?
Information directly detected with the senses or collected using a measuring tool. What is an observation?
The following quote is an example of what?
A question that allows a witness to answer in their own words.
What is an open-ended question?
This specialist collects, documents, and preserves evidence at a crime scene.
Who is a crime scene investigator?
Influenced by personal feelings, beliefs, or opinions.
What is subjective?
The factor measured as the result of an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
“The person wore a black jacket, didn’t they?” is this type of question.
What is a leading question?
This specialist examines bullets, cartridge cases, and firearm markings.
Who is a ballistics examiner?
An unfair preference or assumption that can influence a person’s judgment.
What is bias?
Factors kept the same throughout an experiment.
What are control variables?
The following quote is an example of what?
“The person who left the shoe impression entered through the window.”
What is an inference?
giving positive responses to a witnesses answer can do this to their memory
What is reinforce inaccurate memories?
Person who analyses alcohol, drugs, & poisons in body fluids for the benefit of the courts.
What is a Forensic Toxicologist?
To confirm a statement or conclusion using additional evidence or another source.
What is corroborate?
Students test how water temperature affects the time needed for a tablet to dissolve. What is the independent variable?
water temperature
Witness are separated to prevent this
What is memory contamination?
A chemical reaction that produces visible light without producing much heat is described by this word.
What is chemiluminescent?
In the tablet experiment, students use identical tablets, 100 mL of water, identical cups, and the same stirring method. Name two control variables.
What are tablet size/type, water volume, cup type, and stirring method?
The word forensic comes from the Latin word forensis, meaning this.
What is “of the forum”?
A witness may sound extremely confident and still be wrong because confidence does not guarantee this.
What is accuracy?
Investigators recover deleted messages and location information from a phone. This specialist should examine it.
Who is a digital forensic analyst?