Refers to a defendants mental abilities at the time of the proceeding
What is competence?
100
This type of forensic identification technique has very strong scientific evidence and has been used to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners
What is DNA analysis?
100
This type of lineup presents all pictures of faces at once
What is a simultaneous lineup?
100
When one incorporates misleading information into one’s memory of an event, they are experiencing this
What is the misinformation effect?
100
These people, despite being regarded as very rational, were found to change their opinion based on how recently they had eaten
Who are judges?
200
This cognitive test, used to determine sanity, concerns whether a defendant knows right from wrong.
What is the McNaughton Rule?
200
Studies show that experts in this field are very good at their job. Compared to novices, experts show a conservative bias- they hardly ever falsely declare a match on a non-matching pair
What is fingerprint analysis?
200
This type of lineup presents each picture one at a time
What is a sequential lineup?
200
A self-help book to help women remember if they are victims to sexual abuse, which contributed to the 1990s recovered memory epidemic
What is "The Courage to Heal"?
200
This kind of challenge is issued without needing to give reason, or needing approval by the judge
What is a peremtory challenge?
300
People with this relationship status are the most frequently (70%) selected victims
What are strangers?
300
When additional information inappropriately impacts a “match”/”no match” decision of a fingerprint examiner
What is a context effect?
300
Contrary to initial findings, ROC analysis has shown this lineup procedure to be superior
What is a simultaneous lineup?
300
The theory that repressed painful memories create psychological disorders and liberation can be achieved by unrepressing the memory comes from this field
What is psychotherapy?
300
This side of the O.J Simpson trial dismissed their trial consultant on the second day, disregarding the consultant's advice
What is the prosecution
400
Under this circumstance, a criminal sentenced to death may not be executed
What is not understanding the reason for their execution?
400
A situation that arises when a large database is searched for a match leading to a large number of false alarms
What is the base rate problem?
400
This eyewitness identification, made at a particular point in time and with a particular level of confidence, indicates the probability of error is high
What is a low confidence initial ID?
400
Approximately this percentage of people reported getting lost in the mall, after the memory was implanted by Loftus and colleagues over the course of two interview sessions?
What is 25%?
400
A juror personal belief that "things happen to people", rather than that "people do things?"
What is an external locus of control
500
This constitutes giving an opinion as to whether the defendant is competent or not
What is ultimate issue testimony
500
This way of expressing a statistics is more intuitive, both to doctors and laypeople alike.
What is a natural frequency?
500
This statistic was used in Lindsay & Wells’ study to indicate sequential superiority
What is the diagnosticity ratio?
500
This person prayed to God to restore his memories of having abused his daughter, and confessed to doing so despite any evidence.
Who is Paul Ingram?
500
This hypothesis states that, while strength of evidence is the best predictor of trial outcome, non-evidentiary factors will make a difference when evidence is ambiguous