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APPL COG 18124

Chapter 4

1)All of these are witness factors that experts agree are probably true except which one?

2. Which of these is most accurate concerning face recognition?
3. The most likely reason face production kits and software don't produce very good likenesses of people's faces is that
4. "VIPER" stand for
5. When real cashiers checked IDs of people in a study where some had IDs that looked exactly like them, some had IDs that were them but looking different, some had IDs of matched foils, or people who looked like them but weren't them, and some had IDs of people who looked very different from them (mismatched foils), what happened?
6. Studies of face creation systems that use overlays, such as Photo-fit and Identikit, have found that
7. The "Blackstone Principle" refers to what ideal adopted by the Founding Fathers?
8. All of these are part of the Bruce and Young facial identification model except for which one?
9. What is meant by system variables vs. estimator variables?
10. We aren't very good at recognizing noses or eyes in isolation from the faces they go in. This is known as the
11. In addition to asking witnesses to identify the person, lineup experts suggest we also ask them:
12. About how many people have been released from death row in the United States, people who had been convicted of crimes they did not commit and were awaiting execution for crimes they did not commit, as a result of DNA testing?
13. All of these are major problems with how police lineups are done in the United States except for which one?
14. In the Bruce and Young model, what is meant by "view centered descriptions?":