Topic 8

Question 1

Rules to be followed in the formulation of test questions:

Answer 1

1. Questions must be simple and direct:
2. They must not involved legal terminology such as rape, murder, etc.
3. They must be answerable by yes or no.
4. Must be short as possible.
5. Their meaning must be clear and unmistakable phrased in language that the subject can easily understand.
6. They must not be in the form of accusation.
7. Questions must never contain an inference which presupposes knowledge on the part of the subject.
8. All questions must refer to one offense only.
9. All questions must refer to only one element of an offense.
10. They must not contain inferences to ones religion, races or belief.

Question 2

The Two (2) General Types of Questions are?

Answer 2

1. General question test (GQT)
2. Peak of tension test (PTT)

Question 3

• the most commonly applied. This consists of a series of Relevant and Irrelevant Questions asked in a planned order.

Answer 3

1. General Question Test (GQT)

Question 4

Question are so arranged as to make a comparison of responses to relevant questions with a subject’s norm made during the answering of irrelevant questions.

Answer 4

1. General Question Test (GQT)

Question 5

• which is usually used as supplementary test.

Answer 5

2. Peak-of-Tension Test (PTT)

Question 6

T or F
Peak of tension test is answerable by yes or no?

Answer 6

F

Question 7

is one that deals with the real issue of concern to the investigation. These questions include asking whether the examinee perpetrated the target act or knows who did it and perhaps questions about particular pieces of evidence that would incriminate the guilty person.

Answer 7

Relevant Questions

Question 8

Classification of Relevant Question:

Answer 8

Strong relevant or primary relevant question

Secondary or weak relevant

Question 10

-which has an intense relationship to the crime or problem being considered. This intended to produce strong emotional response in guilty subjects.

Example: Did you steal Pedro Oya’s Laptop?

Answer 10

A. Strong Relevant or Primary Relevant Question

Question 12

• are questions that concern with elements of the crime and deals mostly on guilty knowledge and partial involvement.

Example: Between 10:00 to 12:00 a.m., of February 10,2016, did you open the table drawer of Mr.Pedro San Andres?

Answer 12

B. Secondary or Weak Relevant

Question 13

Classification of Weak Relevant Questions:

Answer 13

Sacrifice relevant or DYAT question
Knowledge question
Evidence connecting question

Question 14

designed to absorb the response generally generated by the introduction of the first relevant questions in the series. Reaction to these questions gives the examiner a clue as to the subject’s attitude of willingness or voluntariness to submit to the test.

Example:

Regarding the stolen laptop, do you intend truthfully to answer each question about that?

Regarding whether or not you shot Police Officer John Doe, do you intent to answer truthfully each question about that?

Answer 14

a. Sacrifice Relevant or DYAT Questions (Do you intend to answer truthfully) -

Question 15

• this type of question is propounded to the subject to detect information about a crime that only a guilty subject would have. Such information might include details about the site of the crime or the means of committing it, such as the type of weapon used.

Example:

Do you know for sure who stole the laptop of Mr. Juan Sanchez?

Answer 15

b. Knowledge Questions

Question 16

-This has to do with inviting subject’s attention on the probability of incriminating proof that would tend to establish his guilt, by linking him and his predicaments to the fingerprints, footprints, tool marks, etc. the footprints outside the house of Pedro is yours? Collected at the crime scene.

Example:

Were the footprints outside the house of Pedro yours?

Answer 16

e. Evidence-connecting Question

Question 17

The Control Question (Comparison Question) Test are?

Answer 17

1. Control questions
2. Comparison question test

Question 18

are used for purposes of comparison.

Answer 18

Control questions

Question 19

also called control question tests

Answer 19

Comparison question test

Question 20

Essentially, truthful subjects are believed by polygraph examiners to be more concerned about control than relevant questions. The response to both and relevant questions are compared.

Answer 20

Control questions

Question 21

are defined as in the relevant-irrelevant test.

Answer 21

Relevant questions

Question 22

ask about general undesirable acts, sometimes of the type of an event under investigation.

For example, “Have you ever stolen anything?”

Answer 22

Comparison questions test

Question 23

the instructions are designed to induce innocent people to answer in the negative, even though most are lying. Innocent examinees are expected to experience concern about these answers that shoes in their physiological responses.

Answer 23

In probable-lie comparison question tests

Question 24

examinees are instructed to respond negatively and untruthfully to comparison questions (eg., “During the first 20 years of your life, did you ever tell even one lie?”).

Answer 24

in directed-lie tests

Question 25

Two Kinds of Control Questions:

Answer 25

1. Primary control question
2. Secondary controls question

Question 26

• recalls the offense done from the time of childhood up to three to five years before the occurrence of the present offense being investigated.

Example: Before reaching the age of 25, have you ever stolen anything?

Answer 26

Primary Control Question

Question 27

- more specific in nature, it is based upon another sort of wrongdoing which will enhance the subject's opportunity for responsiveness. Its scope includes up to the present period of examination. Example: Have you eve stolen anything from this locality?

Answer 27

Secondary Control Question

Question 28

Its scope includes up to the present period of examination.

Answer 28

Secondary Control Question

Question 29

Types of questions which have no importance to the case under investigation, these are questions which are believed to have no, or very little emotional impact on a subject. Thus, such questions can be used as an indicator of a particular subject's normal baseline level as arousal. This must precede the relevant ones.

Answer 29

The Irrelevant (Neutral) Questions

Question 30

is one designed to provoke no emotion (e.g., "Is today Friday?).

Answer 30

Irrelevant question

Question 31

are typically placed in the first position of a question list because the physiological responses that follow the presentation of the first question are presumed to have no diagnostic value; they are also placed at other points in the question sequence.

Answer 31

Irrelevant questions

Question 32

Guilty examinees are expected to show stronger reactions to relevant than to irrelevant questions; innocent examinees are expected to react similarly to both question types.

Answer 32

Irrelevant (neutral) question

Question 33

- Questions designed emotionally neutral to examine (aka.:"Norms" and "Neutral").

Answer 33

Irrelevant Question (IR)

Question 34

Should be answered with a "YES".

Answer 34

Irrelevant Question (IR)

Question 35

Type of questions in which both the examiner and the examinee know the true answer. It is intended to establish the examinee's physiological norm. Examples: 1. Is today ? 2. Is your last name ? 3. Right now, are you wearing color shirt?

Answer 35

Irrelevant Question (IR)

Question 36

The Supplementary Test Questions are?

Answer 36

1. Peak of tension test 2. Sky questions 3. Symptomatic question ( SY) 4. Guilty complex test (GCT) 5. Silent answer test 6.Zone comparison test

Question 37

is similar in format to concealed information tests, but is distinct because questions are asked in an easily recognized order (e.g., "Was the amount of stolen money $1,000? $2,000? $3,000?" etc.).

Answer 37

Peak-of-Tension Test

Question 38

A guilty examinee is expected to show a pattern of responsiveness that increases as the correct alternative approaches in the question sequence and decreases when it has passed. Stimulation tests often have this format.

Answer 38

Peak of tension test

Question 39

An optional question used to verify previous charts: S K Y

Answer 39

SKY Questions S-Suspect K-Know Y-You

Question 40

✓ Use to determine whether the examinee is truly convinced that the Forensic Psychophysiology's (FP) will not ask un-reviewed questions during the Polygraph Verification (PV) Test and whether there is something else the examinee is afraid the FP will ask him a question about, even though the FP promised to the examinee he would not.

Answer 40

Symptomatic Question (SY)

Question 41

This test is applied when the response to relevant and control questions are similar in degree and in consistency and in a way that the examiner cannot determine whether the subject is telling the truth or not.

Answer 41

Guilty Complex Test (GCT)

Question 42

The subject is asked questions aside from the irrelevant, relevant and control questions, a new series of relevant questions dealing with a real incident and that which the subject could not have committed.

Answer 42

Guilty Complex Test (GCT)

Question 43

This test is conducted in the same manner as when relevant and control questions are asked but the subject is instructed to answer the questions silently, to himself, without making any verbal response causes distortion in the tracing such as sniff or cleaning the throat.

Answer 43

Silent Answer Test

Question 44

- a twenty to thirty five seconds block of polygraph chart time initiated by a question having a unique psychological focusing appeal to a predictable group of examinees

Answer 44

Zone Comparison Test or Zone

Question 45

compare examiners' responses to relevant questions to their responses to other questions that are believed to elicit physiological reactions from innocent examiners.

Answer 45

Comparison question test