What procedure do psychologists recommend to reduce the probability that a witness will identify an incorrect person in a police lineup?

a. Encourage the witness to identify someone

b. Identify to the witness the person the police most strongly suspect.
c. Let the witness examine all suspects repeatedly before making a choice.
d. Instruct the witness that the guilty person may or may not be in the lineup.


d

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a. has a negative effect on a woman's social status. b. is viewed as interfering with productivity at work. c. is the highest role a woman can play, making her a fully tenured person in the family. d. results in women losing their impact in the community.

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a. refused to include such guidelines in its association codes b. wrote such guidelines into its original charter more than one hundred years ago c. has recently developed sets of guidelines for dealing with ethnic, linguistic, and culturally diverse populations, and for psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients d. has planned to include such guidelines in its code of conduct but due to controversy has never actually done so

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Temperature set points result from comparisons between the activity of temperature-sensitive and temperature-insensitive neurons in the preoptic area

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The ______ can show aspects of data more visually and clearly than ______.

A. graphs; tables B. graphs; frequency C. tables; graphs D. frequency; tables

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