Forensics Basics
This field uses biology, chemistry, and psychology to solve crimes.
What is forensics?
This effect describes how people better recognize faces of their own race.
What is the Cross-Race Effect?
In this lineup method, the officer doesn’t know who the suspect is.
What is Blind Administration?
This percent of overturned convictions involved eyewitness error.
What is 75%?
This is the act of using your senses to collect details.
What is observation?
These are drawings used to identify suspects, sometimes shared with the media.
What are facial composites?
The way we interpret what we see or experience is called this.
What is perception?
Positive feedback during a lineup can do this to a witness’s memory.
What is distort or falsely boost confidence?
DNA evidence is preferred over this less reliable type.
What is eyewitness testimony?
This mental state can make observations less reliable.
What is anxiety or stress?
This type of evidence includes spoken or written witness statements.
What is testimonial evidence?
This describes how sure a witness is about what they saw.
What is a confidence level?
This project uses DNA to overturn wrongful convictions.
What is The Innocence Project?
This is the top reason for wrongful convictions in the U.S.
What is eyewitness misidentification?
This kind of documentation should be made during lineups to ensure fairness.
What is a video, audio, or written record?
This type of reasoning narrows down suspects by eliminating impossible ones.
What is deductive reasoning?
All of these affect what we notice during an event.
What are emotions, number of people, and environment?