To minimize the effects of nervousness during testing, skilled polygraph examiners use a series of multiple choice questions in which one of the answers is correct. An innocent examinee should show the same polygraph response to all the answers, while a guilty person will show an elevated response to the correct answer. This multiple choice format used in polygraph testing is known as the
__________ test.
a. guilty knowledge
b. denotative meanings
c. comparative guilt
d. critical incidents
A
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the United Kingdom. Canada. the United States. Mexico.
Which perspective largely ignores subjective personal or cultural meanings, cognitions and emotions?
a. Kelly's ecological concepts b. O'Donnell's activity setting concepts c. Barker's behavior setting concepts d. Moos's social climate approach
This is a segment of a chromosome that encodes the directions for the inherited physical and mental characteristics of an organism:
a. RNA b. phenotype c. genotype d. DNA e. gene
Behavioral geneticists tend toward ____ because they believe that at least some thought processes or behavior patterns are strongly influenced by heredity.?
a. ?empiricism b. ?nativism c. ?dualism d. ?sensationalism