Regarding eyewitness testimony, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Eyewitness testimony is often flawed and full of errors.
b. Eyewitnesses are more likely to make mistakes when identifying members of a race other than their own. c. The more confidently an eyewitness expresses his/her testimony, the much higher the accuracy of theperson's testimony is likely to be
d. People who take longer to answer questions in giving testimony are less likely to be accurate than those who respond quickly.
e. Highly attractive or highly unattractive faces are more likely to be accurately identified than faces of average attractiveness.
c
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a. An expert in hypnosis tricked Bianchi into feigning new symptoms. b. There was no known trauma during his childhood. c. Bianchi did not know the names of the personalities. d. Bianchi's poor verbal skills made his responses difficult to comprehend.
Freud used the case study method for his psychological research. One of the disadvantages of this method is that:
a. he used a small and unrepresentative sample of those he studied. b. it was impossible to probe into his patients' childhood years. c. he could not find consistencies and patterns, which were important to develop his theory. d. it could not point out any particular causal factor in neurotic behavior.