According to the text, forensic experts testifying in court often cannot provide scientific data about error rates. Instead, they are more likely to invoke their:

Hearsay testimony is sometimes admissible in trials where a child is the alleged victim because:

According to the text, legal culture tries to avoid ____, whereas for psychology, _____ is an integral part of the scientific process.

According to the text, children who supposedly suffer from child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) are likely to show behavioral symptoms that could also be evident in children misled into admitting such abuse. The following symptoms are believed to be part of the CSAAS syndrome, EXCEPT:

According to a study conducted by Honts and colleagues (1994), the use of countermeasures _____ the detection of guilty suspects by 50%, and the examiners _____ able to tell that the suspects were manipulating their own arousal patterns.

According to the text, the use of anatomically detailed dolls when interviewing children under the age of 6 is likely to _____ the number of false allegations of sexual abuse.

If the imprint came from a popular type of Adidas sneaker, it reflects _____; if the imprint has a unique pattern of wear and tear, it reflects _____.

Psychological profiling mostly relies on the _____ of a particular profiler.

Which of the following forms of forensic identification evidence is the most objective one?

Kelly works as a fingerprint examiner. A police detective showed her some gory photos of the crime scene and told her that the suspect in custody is a likely perpetrator of the murder. Kelly is more likely to find a match between the latent prints and the suspect’s prints because of: