Which of the following is a characteristic of polygraphs, or lie detectors?
A) Drugs and pain can increase their accuracy.
B) Tense muscles will reduce their accuracy.
C) They are always admitted in courts as evidence.
D) They monitor parasympathetic arousal.
B
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b. caudal. c. dorsal. d. ventral.
It is late at night and Tom is walking home from campus. The photoreceptors that are
transducing the physical energy striking his eyes are the a. ganglion cells. b. bipolar cells. c. cones. d. rods. e. receptor cells.
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Still, when other participants made judgments in a group of people who gave the wrong answers, they reported incorrect judgments. These findings suggest that a. experts exert informational social influence in ambiguous situations. b. normative social influence was at work. c. informational social influence happens, even in unambiguous situations. d. people will distort reality to avoid punishment or social censure.