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Interrogations
Eyewitness
Competence/Insanity
Assessment
Jury/Death Penalty
100
Coerced-compliant
What is a type of false confession
100
First stage of memory
What is acquisition/encoding
100
Latin for guilty mind
What is mens rea
100
When prediction is based on clinical experience/judgment
What is clinical prediction
100
When prospective jurors are questioned to determine their impartiality
What is voir dire
200
Technique used when the interrogator says to the suspect: "I've seen thousands of cases like yours"
What is minimization
200
When a witness to a crime pays more attention to a knife than to the face of the perpetrator
What is weapon-focus effect
200
The standard used to assess competency
What is the Dusky standard
200
When prediction is based on statistics/formula
What is actuarial prediction
200
This federal law required that voters' lists be used to select jury panels
What is T=the Jury Selection & Service Act of 1968
300
Case that held that defendant's confession, after being held for 16 days, was voluntary
What is Davis v. NC
300
Foremost authority on eyewitness identification and memory
Who is Elizabeth Loftus
300
Test for insanity where defendant could not be criminally responsible because of mental disease or defect
What is the Durham Rule/Test
300
A person who is labeled as dangerous but who does not engage in dangerous behavior
What is a false positive
300
The two parts of a bifurcated trial
What are guilt determination and sentencing
400
Technique when interrogators pretend to have incriminating/circumstantial evidence
What is knowledge-bluff trick
400
The five factors that increase the likelihood of an accurate identification were reinforced in this US Supreme Court case
What is Manson v. Braithwaite
400
Verdict that combines recognition of mental illness but still holds defendant guilty
What is guilty but mentally ill (GBMI)
400
Court case that held that when a therapist learns that her patient may be dangerous, she has a duty to warn an intended victim
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of CA
400
Two of the three states that have executed the most people in recent years
What are TX, OK, & VA
500
Most important psychological factor in eliciting a confession
What is being alone with the suspect
500
The type of lineup presentation technique that reduces relative judgments
What is sequential presentation
500
Fabrication/gross exaggeration of physical/psychological symptoms in order for person to avoid going to prison
What is malingering
500
This federal law identifies several factors that a judge may consider in reaching custody decision
What is the Uniform Marriage & Divorce Act
500
The 1972 US Supreme Court case that outlawed the death penalty
What is Furman v. GA