Because it is difficult to determine for certain whether a person who has been accused of breaking the law is innocent or guilty, many studies of lie detection use the
A) guilty-knowledge technique.
B) control-question technique.
C) mock-crime procedure.
D) all of the above
E) both A and B
Answer: C
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