Psych 2032 Midterm (New 2026/ 2027
Update) Questions & Answers {Grade A}
100% Correct (Verified Solutions)
What are the 9 steps involved with the Reid model's third stage? - Correct answer 1.
Confrontation
2. Theme development
3. Stopping denials
4. Overcoming objections
5. Getting suspect's attention
6. Suspect loses resolve
7. Alternatives
8. Bringing suspect into conversation
9. The confession
What two categories can interrogations techniques be broken down into? - Correct
answer 1. Minimization techniques
2. Maximization techniques
,What is the different between minimization and maximization techniques in
interrogations? - Correct answer - Minimization: soft sell tactics that provide a sense
of false security (e.g. justifying the crime)
- Maximization: scare tactics that attempt to intimidate suspects (e.g. making up
evidence)
What are 4 potential problems with the Reid model? - Correct answer 1. Deception
detection
2. Comprehension of legal rights
3. Investigator bias
4. False confessions
What are 5 goals of criminal profiling? - Correct answer 1. To prioritize suspects
2. To develop new lines of enquiry
3. To flush out offenders
4. To determine risk
5. To provide interrogation advice
, What are the 2 approaches to criminal profiling? - Correct answer 1. Deductive profiling
(profiling an offender from evidence relating to that offender's crimes)
2. Inductive profiling (profiling an offender from what is known about other offenders
who have committed similar (solved) crimes)
What is the most widely known inductive profiling approach? - Correct answer The
Organized-Disorganized model (developed by the FBI)
Who is credited with the term "profiling"? - Correct answer Robert Ressler
What did Robert Ressler start at the FBI? - Correct answer The Behavioural Science
Unit
What are three assumptions of the Organized-Disorganized Model? - Correct answer 1.
Crime scenes can be categorized as organized (methodical) or disorganized (chaotic)
2. Background characteristics can be categorized as organized (high functioning) or
disorganized (low functioning)
Update) Questions & Answers {Grade A}
100% Correct (Verified Solutions)
What are the 9 steps involved with the Reid model's third stage? - Correct answer 1.
Confrontation
2. Theme development
3. Stopping denials
4. Overcoming objections
5. Getting suspect's attention
6. Suspect loses resolve
7. Alternatives
8. Bringing suspect into conversation
9. The confession
What two categories can interrogations techniques be broken down into? - Correct
answer 1. Minimization techniques
2. Maximization techniques
,What is the different between minimization and maximization techniques in
interrogations? - Correct answer - Minimization: soft sell tactics that provide a sense
of false security (e.g. justifying the crime)
- Maximization: scare tactics that attempt to intimidate suspects (e.g. making up
evidence)
What are 4 potential problems with the Reid model? - Correct answer 1. Deception
detection
2. Comprehension of legal rights
3. Investigator bias
4. False confessions
What are 5 goals of criminal profiling? - Correct answer 1. To prioritize suspects
2. To develop new lines of enquiry
3. To flush out offenders
4. To determine risk
5. To provide interrogation advice
, What are the 2 approaches to criminal profiling? - Correct answer 1. Deductive profiling
(profiling an offender from evidence relating to that offender's crimes)
2. Inductive profiling (profiling an offender from what is known about other offenders
who have committed similar (solved) crimes)
What is the most widely known inductive profiling approach? - Correct answer The
Organized-Disorganized model (developed by the FBI)
Who is credited with the term "profiling"? - Correct answer Robert Ressler
What did Robert Ressler start at the FBI? - Correct answer The Behavioural Science
Unit
What are three assumptions of the Organized-Disorganized Model? - Correct answer 1.
Crime scenes can be categorized as organized (methodical) or disorganized (chaotic)
2. Background characteristics can be categorized as organized (high functioning) or
disorganized (low functioning)
