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POLYGAR
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  • 1. Their shoulders tend to remain squared, and the body is aligned with the interviewers.
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 2. When someone sits with his elbows away from the body, it shows he is relaxed, less defensive and more likely to be.
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 3. They usually use body position as illustrators and have an open, settled, upright position.
A) Deceptive people
B) Truthful people
  • 4. They may assume a position of defeat, with their shoulders forward and their chin on their chest.
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 5. They often show very close and defensive positions, such as crossed arms and/or legs.
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 6. They often lean back or stretch out their legs, to perceptually increase the distance between the interviewer and themselves
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 7. Breathing as a means
A) Deceptive people
B) detecting deception.
  • 8. What is the most common part of the body to observe?
A) General Posture
B) Head and Face
C) Arms and Hands
D) Eyes
  • 9. They will lean slightly forward, indicating interest in what is being said.
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 10. Exaggerated eye contact is likely to be masking behavior and should be considered an indicator of what?
A) Truthful people
B) Deceptive people
  • 11. It maintains the homeostasis of the body necessary for normal functioning.
A) Automatic Nervous System
B) Autonomic Nervous System
C) Parasympathetic nervous system
D) Sympathetic nervous system
  • 12. It is the one responsible for regulating mechanism that corrects the slightest deviation from a particular standard within very fine limits.
A) Norepinephrine
B) Autonomic Nervous System
C) Hypothalamus
D) Parasympathetic nervous system
  • 13. This is found at the center of the brain.
A) Hypothalamus
B) Illustrators
C) Emblems
D) Norepinephrine
  • 14. What is the second division of the autonomic nervous system?
A) Parasympathetic nervous system
B) Autonomic Nervous System
C) Sympathetic nervous system
D) Automatic Nervous System
  • 15. These are non-verbal behavior that expresses the entire communication.
A) Hypothalamus
B) Illustrators
C) Adapters
D) Emblems
  • 16. All are example of External Observable Signs and Symptoms of Lies/Deception.
A) A peculiar monotone of the voice or a forced laugh
B) Failure to look the inquirer
C) Dilation of the eye
D) Normal Pulsation of the artery in the neck
  • 17. These are non-verbal behaviors which assist the listener better understand the verbal communication.
A) Illustrators
B) Hypothalamus
C) Adapters
D) Emblems
  • 18. These are non-verbal behaviors that serve no purpose in helping verbal communication, and often detract from it
A) Emblems
B) Adapters
C) Hypothalamus
D) Illustrators
  • 19. What are the physiological effectors in polygraph examination
A) Norepinephrine
B) Hypothalamus
C) Parasympathetic nervous system
D) Autonomic Nervous System
  • 20. This chemical causes the arterioles in certain parts of the body to constrict. Thereby preventing blood from entering those areas where it is not immediately needed
A) Adapters
B) Emblems
C) Norepinephrine
D) Hypothalamus
  • 21. Truthful people usually use body position as illustrators and have an open, settled, upright position. Often, they will lean slightly forward, indicating interest in what is being said. Shoulders tend to remain squared and the body is aligned with the interviewers.
A) eyes
B) General Posture
C) head and face
D) arm and hand
  • 22. eye behavior provides an excellent source of non-verbal information. Breaks in eye contact, which occur at the appropriate time, can be indicative of deception. Exaggerated eye contact is likely to be masking behavior and should be considered an indicator of the deceptive. People who maintain eye-to-eye contact too long are trying to replicate sincerity, or attempting to dominate you.
A) arm and hand
B) Eyes
C) Head and face
D) general posture
  • 23. Arm and hand movements give clearer non-verbal cues. Most people do not pay attention to what their hands are doing during conversation and, therefore, do not attempt to mask these subconscious gestures. Moreover, hand movements are less fleeting than the facial expressions, are easily observable and are the main non-verbal means of recognizing illustrators and adapters.
A) general posture
B) Head and face
C) eyes
D) Arms and Hands
  • 24. Under times of stress the body's senses are enhanced by sympathetic arousal. A person's olfactory (smelling), aural (hearing) visual (sight), and tactile (touch and skin sensitivity) perceptions are noticeably increased.
A) Arms and Hands
B) Sense Arousal Gestures
C) Feet and Legs
  • 25. The involuntary movement of feet and legs are also reliable illustrators or adaptors. They move slowly, are easily observed, and unconsciously, no one pays attention to them. Unfortunately, the legs and feet are limited in the variety of movements compared to the arms and hands.
A) Arm and hand
B) Feet and Legs
C) Head and Face
  • 26. generally used as an investigative aid/technical aid in the investigative process. It is used to verify if the statement of the victims/complainant, establish the credibility of the witnesses, evaluates the truthfulness of the suspects,,,,,,obtain the subject's admission or confession to the offense committed.,,,.
A) Polygraph Examination
B) Psychological examinatin
  • 27. is a statement of fact by the accused, which do not directly involve an acknowledgement of guilt in committing or having participated in the commission of an offense
A) ADMISSION
B) CONFESSION
  • 28. is a declaration made by a person voluntarily, stating or acknowledging that has committed or participated in the commission of a crime.
A) CONFESSION
B) ADMISSION
  • 29. The polygraph machine is mechanically capable of making graphical records containing reliable information regarding physiological changes.
A) The Mechanical Basic Premise
B) Psychological basic premise
  • 30. Among the physiological changes that may be recorded and identified are those that automatically occur only following the stimulation of specific nervous system component and from which stimulation of those specific nervous system components can be reliably diagnosed.
A) Mechanical basic premise
B) The Physiological Basic Premise
  • 31. Under the polygraph leg premise, the specific nervous system component whose stimulation can thus be diagnosed are so stimulated by the involuntary mental and emotional processes of the individual who is consciously attempting concealment of deception specially if that individual has something at stake and the prevailing circumstances lead him to believe that exposure to detection is quite possible though undesirable.
A) The Psychological Basic Premise
B) Mechanical basic premise
  • 32. An increase of blood pressure and heartbeat frequency following relevant questions and the suppression in breathing are the criteria for detecting deception. Ink curves as shown on the heartbeat recorded on a moving graph paper of a polygraph represent the beat frequency (pulse) and the two pressures (blood pressures)
A) High pressure
B) Blood Pressure and Heart Beat Frequency
  • 33. They exist when the heart is contracted and the values are open with the blood rushing into the arteries,
A) Systolic or high pressure
B) Blood
  • 34. This exists when the values are closed and the heart relaxed.
A) Diastolic or Low pressure
B) Systolic pressure
  • 35. Normal blood pressure
A) 37
B) 120/80
  • 36. which accelerates the beat
A) the sympathetic set
B) The cranial set
  • 37. which retard the beat.
A) The sympathetic set
B) the cranial Autonomic system
  • 38. caused by the contraction of the diaphragm and expansion of the chest cavity that results in the air rushing into the lungs.
A) Expiration
B) Inspiration
  • 39. caused by relaxation of the diaphragm and contraction of the chest cavity resulting in the air rushing out of the lungs.
A) Expiration
B) Inspiration
  • 40. This is the most current popular name for the human body phenomenon in which the body, mainly the skin, changes resistance electrically upon the application of certain external stimuli. It consists of two categories - Normal Response and Abnormal Response.
A) Electrodermal Response
B) Machine fright response
  • 41. Interference abnormal response that originates in Step 2 (fright to the machine) of the reaction chain or situational fright. It appears on the first question or so and no longer appears throughout the test.
A) Machine Fright Response
B) Electrodermal response
  • 42. response Interfering caused by voluntary physical movement by the subject during the lie test and is found between steps 4 and 5 of the reaction chain. The result of such physical movement causes physiological (muscle) changes to take place within the body that shows up electrodermal response.
A) Outside interfere response
B) Physical Movement Response
  • 43. Interfering response originating in step 1 of the reaction chain in the form of unwanted auditory or stimuli. The slamming of the door or the ringing of the telephone, a cough or sneeze by spectators in the room, or any unusual noise to which the subject is not accustomed at the location, will usually produce outside interference response.
A) Physical movement response
B) Outside Interference Response
  • 44. Interfering response which originates between step 2 (machine fright) and step 3 (emotion) in the reaction chain. Another name is guilt complex.
A) Mental Tie-up Response
B) Deception response
  • 45. Abnormalities as a result of telling a lie (more on psychological and such also is accompanied by physical changes).
A) Deception Response
B) Mental tie response
  • 46. The instrument used in the proper application of the polygraph technique is essentially a pneumatically operated mechanical recorder of changes in respiration, blood pressure/pulse heat supplemented with a unit for recording galvanic skin reflexes, or an additional unit for recording abdominal respiration, muscular movements and pressures or a plethysmograph for recording changes in blood oxygenation.
A) Modern Polygraph Instrument
B) Polygraphy
  • 47. common both in a desktop model for polygraph examinations administered in the office and in a laptop model for travel as pictured below.
A) Lafayette Computerized Polygraph Instrument
B) Horizontal kymograph
  • 48. The polygraph simultaneously records various physiological phenomena by means a
A) Lafayette computerized polygraph instrument
B) horizontal kymograph.
  • 49. Two rubber tubes filled with air, called pneumographs, are placed around the examinee's____ and_____When the chest or abdominal muscles expand, the air inside the tubes is displaced. The digital or computerized polygraph employs transducers to convert the energy of the displaced air into electronic signals._
A) Respiratory Rate,,,chest and abdomen.,
B) Blood pressure
  • 50. A blood pressure cuff is placed around the examinee's upper arm. Tubing runs from the cuff to the polygraph. Again, in digital or computerized polygraphs, these signals are converted into electrical signals by transducers.
A) Respiratory rate
B) Blood Pressure/Heart Rate:
  • 51. This is also called electro-dermal activity and is basically a measure of sweat on the subject's fingertips.
A) Psychological
B) Galvanic Skin Resistance:
  • 52. This component occupies the two/upper pens of the instrument which records the thoracic and abdominal breathing patterns of respiration. This is accomplished through the use of a pneumograph consisting of two hollow corrugated tubes about seven inches in length, each attached to a unit by a rubber hose not longer than six feet and not larger than one quarter inch in diameter.
A) Galvanograph component
B) Pneumograph Component
  • 53. This is the longest and the third pen of the instrument. The electrodes are attached to the index finger and the ring finger of the left hand,
A) Pneumograph component
B) Galvanograph Component
  • 54. This is the fourth and the bottom pen of the instrument. This cardio unit is a mechanically operated unit.
A) Cardiograph Component
B) Galvanograph component
  • 55. The polygraphist inflates the bladder with a hand pump to a constant air pressure that will provide tracing amplitude of_____ To____with a dichotic notch situated about the middle of the diastolic limb of the tracing._
A) 0.75 to 1 inch
B) 7
C) 54
  • 56. This is the chart-drive recording unit of the instrument. It has a synchronized motor that drives the charts at the rate of six (6) to twelve (12) inches per minute and its speed constant is vital because the vertical lines, which are spaced either at one-half of an inch intervals, represent five- or ten-second intervals on the chart.
A) Kymograph Component
B) Galvanograph component
  • 57. These are the kinds of lies used to protect or maintain the harmony of friendship or any relationship.
A) Red Lie
B) White Lie or Benign Lie
  • 58. This is a lie made by persons who cannot distinguish right from wrong.
A) Pathological Lie
B) Benign Lie
  • 59. Example: Propaganda-brain-washing and blackmail via espionage and treason.
A) Red Lie
B) Black Lie
  • 60. A lie that accompanies pretensions and hypocrisies, intriguing to cause dishonor or discredit one's good image.
A) Black Lie
B) White Lie
  • 61. this is a very pure and unjustifiable kind of lie that is intended purely to mislead or obstruct justice.
A) Black Lie
B) Malicious or Judicial Lie
  • 62. "The dog ate my homework", or "I did unplug the iron".
A) Bold-faced lie
B) Fabrication
  • 63. one which is told when it is obvious to all concerned that it is a lie. For example, a child who has chocolate all around his mouth and denies that he has eaten any chocolate is a bold-faced liar.
A) Bold-faced lie
B) Fabrication
  • 64. One lies by omission by omitting an important fact,
A) Fabrication
B) Lying by omission
  • 65. often a platitude that may use a euphemism, which is told to make an adult subject acceptable to children.
A) Lie-to-children
B) Bold-faced lie
  • 66. It is often told to maintain law, order, and safety.
A) Noble lie
B) Perjury
  • 67. a strategic lie when the truth may not be told because it may harm a third party, and lie could denote a (temporary) lie .
A) Emergency lie
B) Noble lie
  • 68. the act of lying under oath or affirmation
A) Perjury
B) Forgery
  • 69. Types of lie that accepted and can be expected as a tactic.
A) Emergency lie
B) Bluffing
  • 70. _____ is a type of lie which are meant in jest, and are usually understood as such by all present parties. Teasing and sarcasm are examples.
A) Bluffing
B) Jocose lies
  • 71. One can state part of the truth out of context, knowing that without complete information, it gives a false impression.
A) Perjury
B) Contextual lies
  • 72. often contain statements which are incredible, such as "We are always happy to give a you",
A) Promotion lies
B) Jocose lies
  • 73. one who lies in order to avoid the consequences of a confession, they are afraid of embarrassment and it is a serious blow to their ego. They believe that confession will just make the matter worst.
A) Tournament Liars
B) Panic Liars
  • 74. These are practical liars and lies when it has a higher "pay off" than telling the truth.
A) Occupational Liars
B) Panic Liars
  • 75. These are those who love to lie and are excited by the challenge of not being detected. For them an interview is a contest and wants to win, these person realizes that they will probably be convicted but will not give anyone the satisfaction of hearing them or her confesses, the want that people will believe that the law is punishing an innocent person.
A) Tournament Liars
B) Occupational Liars
  • 76. The most difficult type, these persons have no conscience and show no regret for dishonesty and no manifestation of guilt.
A) Psychopathic Liars
B) Black Liars
  • 77. Are persons who cannot distinguish right from wrong due to their sick mind.) They are insane.
A) Panic Liars
B) Pathological Liars
  • 78. People who always pretend what he is and what he thinks of himself.
A) Pathological Liars
B) Black Liars
  • 79. _____repudiated by Ruckmick and proposed the term Electro dermal Response,
A) Vittorio benussi
B) Otto veraguth
  • 80. Who is the first person to record more than one physiological response?
A) Sebastian shaw
B) Vittorio benussi
  • 81. He is the English clinician and cardiologist, constructed the Clinical Polygraph?
A) Sir james mackenzie
B) Sticker
  • 82. Who was the first scientist to use the word association test with a galvanometer?
A) Ruckmick
B) Otto veraguth
  • 83. Who help sir James Mackenzie to devised his Clinical Ink Polygraph?
A) Sticker
B) Sebastian shaw
  • 84. Radial pulse is located about an inch along from the base of the thumb or___ area
A) Wrist
B) Thumb
  • 85. Who presented a paper before the second meeting of the Italian Society for Psychology in Rome where he described how he recorded the subject's breathing pattern using a Marey Pneumograph?
A) Otto veraguth
B) Vittorio benussi
  • 86. He made the earliest application of psychogalvanometer to address forensic problems?
A) Sticker
B) Otto veraguth
  • 87. what is the popular but misleading name of the polygraph?
A) Lie detector
B) Many writings
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