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FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
6TH CANADIAN EDITION
CHAPTER NO. 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. Alfred Binet conducted a series of studies on how question types influence the accuracy of child
eyewitness reports. What did he find?
A) He found that direct question types result in the most accurate answers.
B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers.
C) He found that highly misleading questions result in the most accurate answers.
D) He found that free recall results in the least accurate answers.
E) He found that eyewitness accuracy did not vary across question type.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-01
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers
2. A professor arranges for a friend to enter her classroom, steal her book, and run out. The researcher
then asks her students to provide a description of the “offender” in an effort to study eyewitness recall.
What is this an example of?
A) A verifiable experiment
B) A virtual experiment
C) A reality experiment
D) A misinformation test
E) A subjective recall test
Difficulty: Easy
,QuestionID: 01-1-02
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: C) A reality experiment
3. In 1911, Julian Varendonck, a Belgian psychologist, served as an expert witness in a case where two
children were repeatedly interviewed as witnesses in relation to the murder of their friend Cecile.
Varendonck studied of the effect of suggestive questioning on child testimony. What did he testify in
court?
A) Child witnesses are likely accurate and resistant to suggestion.
B) Child witnesses are likely told what to say by their parents.
C) Child witnesses do not have the vocabulary required to provide useful information.
D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
E) Child witnesses are fantasy prone.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-03
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology
Answer: D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
4. Place the following events in chronological order:
1 – Cattell conducts some of the first experiments in North America on the psychology of testimony.
2 – APA recognizes forensic psychology as a specialty discipline.
3 – Hugo Munsterberg publishes On the Witness Stand.
4 – The U.S. Supreme court lays out the Daubert criteria for determining when scientific evidence should
be admitted in court.
A) 4, 2, 3, 1
B) 3, 4, 2, 1
C) 4, 3, 2, 1
D) 1, 2, 3, 4
, E) 1, 3, 4, 2
Difficulty: Hard
QuestionID: 01-1-04
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: E) 1, 3, 4, 2
5. Which psychologist conducted some of the first experiments in the United States on eyewitness
testimony?
A) Wundt
B) Cattell
C) Binet
D) Stern
E) von Schrenck-Notzing
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-05
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: B) Cattell
6. In Binet’s studies on the suggestibility of child testimony, what type of technique produced the most
accurate recall?
A) Cued recall
B) Direct questioning
C) Report everything instruction
D) Asking mildly misleading questions
E) Reverse-order recall
Difficulty: Moderate
, QuestionID: 01-1-06
Skill:
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: C) Report everything instruction
7. What, based on von Schrenck-Notzing's research, is the impact of extensive pretrial press coverage on
the eyewitness testimony called?
A) Post-event misinformation
B) Memory contamination
C) Source monitoring errors
D) Exposure distortion
E) Retroactive memory falsification
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-07
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: E) Retroactive memory falsification
8. In 1906, Hugo Munsterberg worked on the criminal case of a young disabled man (Richard Ivens)
from Chicago. As part of this work, what did Munsterberg examine?
A) Eyewitness testimony accuracy
B) Criminal responsibility
C) Mental health records
D) Interrogation records
E) Juror selection methods
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-08
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: D) Interrogation records
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
6TH CANADIAN EDITION
CHAPTER NO. 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. Alfred Binet conducted a series of studies on how question types influence the accuracy of child
eyewitness reports. What did he find?
A) He found that direct question types result in the most accurate answers.
B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers.
C) He found that highly misleading questions result in the most accurate answers.
D) He found that free recall results in the least accurate answers.
E) He found that eyewitness accuracy did not vary across question type.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-01
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: B) He found that free recall results in the most accurate answers
2. A professor arranges for a friend to enter her classroom, steal her book, and run out. The researcher
then asks her students to provide a description of the “offender” in an effort to study eyewitness recall.
What is this an example of?
A) A verifiable experiment
B) A virtual experiment
C) A reality experiment
D) A misinformation test
E) A subjective recall test
Difficulty: Easy
,QuestionID: 01-1-02
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: C) A reality experiment
3. In 1911, Julian Varendonck, a Belgian psychologist, served as an expert witness in a case where two
children were repeatedly interviewed as witnesses in relation to the murder of their friend Cecile.
Varendonck studied of the effect of suggestive questioning on child testimony. What did he testify in
court?
A) Child witnesses are likely accurate and resistant to suggestion.
B) Child witnesses are likely told what to say by their parents.
C) Child witnesses do not have the vocabulary required to provide useful information.
D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
E) Child witnesses are fantasy prone.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-03
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology
Answer: D) Child witnesses are likely inaccurate and prone to suggestion.
4. Place the following events in chronological order:
1 – Cattell conducts some of the first experiments in North America on the psychology of testimony.
2 – APA recognizes forensic psychology as a specialty discipline.
3 – Hugo Munsterberg publishes On the Witness Stand.
4 – The U.S. Supreme court lays out the Daubert criteria for determining when scientific evidence should
be admitted in court.
A) 4, 2, 3, 1
B) 3, 4, 2, 1
C) 4, 3, 2, 1
D) 1, 2, 3, 4
, E) 1, 3, 4, 2
Difficulty: Hard
QuestionID: 01-1-04
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: E) 1, 3, 4, 2
5. Which psychologist conducted some of the first experiments in the United States on eyewitness
testimony?
A) Wundt
B) Cattell
C) Binet
D) Stern
E) von Schrenck-Notzing
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-05
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: B) Cattell
6. In Binet’s studies on the suggestibility of child testimony, what type of technique produced the most
accurate recall?
A) Cued recall
B) Direct questioning
C) Report everything instruction
D) Asking mildly misleading questions
E) Reverse-order recall
Difficulty: Moderate
, QuestionID: 01-1-06
Skill:
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: C) Report everything instruction
7. What, based on von Schrenck-Notzing's research, is the impact of extensive pretrial press coverage on
the eyewitness testimony called?
A) Post-event misinformation
B) Memory contamination
C) Source monitoring errors
D) Exposure distortion
E) Retroactive memory falsification
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-07
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: E) Retroactive memory falsification
8. In 1906, Hugo Munsterberg worked on the criminal case of a young disabled man (Richard Ivens)
from Chicago. As part of this work, what did Munsterberg examine?
A) Eyewitness testimony accuracy
B) Criminal responsibility
C) Mental health records
D) Interrogation records
E) Juror selection methods
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-08
Objective: 1.1 Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology.
Answer: D) Interrogation records
