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Pretest

1 .       Eye witness identifications are ____________ inaccurate. [Hint]



2 .       Biases in police lineups and suggestive questioning by police or attorneys are examples of: [Hint]



3 .       Witnessing a negative emotional event has what effect on one’s memory? [Hint]



4 .       Which of the following might account for the fact that, the longer the retention interval, the less accurate eyewitness identification tends to be? [Hint]



5 .       The idea that postevent information actually replaces the information that eyewitnesses initially encode about an event is the: [Hint]



6 .       Which of the following is not a type of coerced false confession? [Hint]



7 .       The process by which judges and attorneys screen potential jurors to determine their suitability for a particular case is: [Hint]



8 .       Factors that make a crime more serious are: [Hint]



9 .       The process by which attorneys eliminate jurors that they would simply rather not have on the jury is: [Hint]



10 .       Which of the following characteristics might make it less likely that a defendant would be convicted? [Hint]



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