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Lie Detection Techniques

Final Exam
Part I: Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer and write its
corresponding answer.

1. Phase in the conduct of Polygraph test that designed to obtain pertinent information
necessary for the conduct of the test. The polygraph examiner will interview the
investigator on case to gather facts and information about the incident.
a. Post-Test Interview
b. Actual test
c. Pre-test Interview
d. Initial Interview

2. Phase in the conduct of polygraph examination, designed to condition or prepare the

subject for the actual polygraph test.
a. Pre-test interview
b. Actual Test
c. Initial Interview
d. Post-Test Interview

3. In the pre-test interview lasts for how many minutes?

a. 25-30 minutes
b. 35-40 minutes
c. 20-30 minutes
d. 25-35 minutes

4. Phase in the polygraph examination wherein the component parts of the polygraph
are installed in the body of the subject.
a. Actual Test
b. Pre-test interview
c. Initial Interview
d. Post-Test Interview

5. Phase of the polygraph examination, wherein interview is conducted when the

subject indicates innocent response while interrogation is undertaken if symptoms of
deception are indicated by the results of actual polygraph tests.
a. Pre-test interview
b. Initial interview
c. Post-test Interview
d. Actual-Interview
6. What is the ideal size of Polygraph examination room?
a. 15ft. x 17 ft. x 9 ft.
b. 15 ft. x 15 ft. x 10 ft.
c. 15 ft. x 15 ft. x 9 ft.
d. 15 ft. x 15 ft. x 8 ft.

7. The ideal chair for the subject of Polygraph Test is ____________?

a. Stoelting Subject’s Chair
b. Stolting Subject’s Chair
c. Steelting Subjects’s Chair
d. All of the above

8. This refers to the consistency of opinion when an individual is examined and then re-
examined by the same or a different examiner.
a. Intra-Rater Reliability
b. Inter-Rater Reliability
c. Test- Retest Reliability
d. All of the above

9. This refers to the capability of two or more examiners to evaluate data and to form a
similar opinion.
a. Inter-Rater Reliability
b. Test-Retest Reliability
c. Intra-Rater Reliability
d. All of the above

10. Refers to the consistency of opinions formed when evaluating a series of polygraph
charts and at a later date/time reevaluating that same chart blindly by the same
examiner.
a. Test-Retest Reliability
b. Intra-Rater Reliability
c. Inter-Rater Reliability
d. All of the above

11. The most commonly applied general types of question. Consist of a series of
Relevant and Irrelevant Questions asked in a planned order. Questions 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.
a. Peak-of-Tension Test (PTT)
b. Sacrifice Relevant or DYAT Questions
c. Knowledge Questions
d. General Question Test (GQT)

12. Questions that deals with the real issue of concern to investigation. These questions
include 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.
a. Irrelevant Question
b. Relevant Question
c. Peak-of Tension Test (PTT)
d. All of the above
13. Type of Relevant question, which has an intense relationship to the crime or problem
being considered. This intended to produce strong emotional response in guilty
subjects.
a. Secondary or Weak Relevant
b. Strong Relevant or Primary Relevant Question
c. Strong Irrelevant Question
d. Letter C

14. Type of Relevant Question that concern with the elements of the crime and deals
mostly on guilty knowledge and partial involvement.
a. Secondary of Weak Relevant
b. Strong Relevant od Primary Relevant Question
c. Both a and b
d. All of the above

15. This question is design to absorb the response generally generated by the
introduction of the first relevant questions in the series. Reaction to this questions
gives the examiner a clue as to the subject’s attitude of willingness or voluntariness
to submit to the test.
a. Knowledge Questions
b. Evidence Connecting Questions
c. Sacrifice Relevant or DYAT Questions (Do you intend to answer truthfully)
d. Control Questions

16. 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.
a. Evidence Connecting Questions
b. Control Questions
c. Sacrifice Relevant or DYAT Questions (Do you intend to answer truthfully)
d. Knowledge Questions

17. This has to do with inviting subject’s attention on the probability of incriminating proof
that would tend to establish his guilt, by l;inking him and his predicaments to the
fingerprints, foot prints, tool marks, etc.
a. Control questions
b. Evidence-Connecting Question
c. Knowledge Question
d. All of the above

18. Used for purposes of comparison. Essentially, truthful subjects are believed by
polygraph examiners to be more concerned about control those relevant questions.
The response to both and relevant questions are compared.
a. Control Questions
b. Comparison Questions
c. Knowledge Questions
d. All of the above
19. The type of control questions that recalls the offense done from the time of childhood
up to three to five years before the occurrence of the present offense being
investigated.
a. Primary Control Questions
b. Secondary Control Questions
c. Main Control Questions
d. Tertiary Control Questions

20. Type of control questions that is 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.
a. Tertiary Control Questions
b. Primary Control Questions
c. Secondary Control Questions
d. All of the above

21. The type of questions, which have no importance to the case under investigation,
these questions that are believed to have no or very little emotional impact on a
subject. This can be used as an indicator of a particular subject’s normal baseline
level of arousal.
a. Irrelevant Question
b. Relevant Questions
c. Non-related Questions
d. All of the above

22. 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.
a. Guilt Complex Test (GCT)
b. Silent Answer test
c. Peak-of-tension Test (PTT)
d. Zone Comparison Test

23. This test in conducted in the same manner as when the relevant and control
questions are asked but the subject is instructed to answer the questions silently, to
himself.
a. Guilt Complex Test (GCT)
b. Peak-of-Tension Test
c. Zone Comparison
d. Silent Answer Test

24. 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.
a. Peak-of Tension Test
b. Zone Comparison Test
c. Silent Answer Test
d. All of the above

25. 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 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.
a. Symptomatic Question
b. Silent Answer Test
c. Zone Comparison Test
d. All of the above
Test II. True or False. Read the statement carefully and determine whether each statement
is true or false. Write TRUE if the statement is true and write FALSE if the statement if false.
26. The questions to be asked during the actual test are prepared by the polygraph
examiner based from the facts and information given by the investigator on case.
-FALSE

27. The pregnant female subject or having menstruation are allowed to undergo
polygraph examination.
-FALSE

28. Before the actual polygraph examination is administered on the subject, the
examiner must appraised the subject’s constitutional rights and obtain the subjects
consent to undergo a polygraph examination.
-TRUE

29. The subject person should refrain from smoking at least two hours prior to the test.
-TRUE

30. Refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages for at least 10 hours prior to the actual
test.
-FALSE

31. In the pre-test interview, the rights of the subject are explained, his consent are
obtained as well as personal data and the determination whether the subject is
mentally, physically and psychologically prepared to undergo the test.
-TRUE

32. The subject should avoid taking medication for at least two (2) days prior to the
examination.
-TRUE

33. The lighting of the polygraph room, indirect illumination and incandescent light
fixtures shall be used because there are subjects of high skin resistance.
-TRUE

34. Guns, knives display and telephone are allowed to display into the polygraph
examination room.
-FALSE

35. The decoration of the polygraph examination should be simple, without designs and
pastel in dark shades.
-FALSE
 36. The observation room should be adjoined with a one-way mirror and with a set-up of
microphone with an amplifier.
-TRUE

37. A good examiner should sometimes examine professionally and ethically.

-TRUE

38. Requesting party refers to the person or persons who ask for the service of the
examiner to help verify the truthfulness of a subject’s statement or testimony.
-TRUE

39. One of the rules to be followed in formulation of test questions is that questions must
not be in the form of accusation.
-TRUE

40. Polygraph test questions must be answerable by yes or no.

-TRUE

Test III. Enumeration

 General types of subjects
-VICTIMS OF COMPLAINTS
-WITNESSES
-SUSPECTS

 Stages in the conduct of Polygraph Test

-PRE-TEST INTERVIEW
-IN-TEST (ACTUAL TEST}
-POST TEST INTERVIEW OR INTERROGATION INTERVIEW

 Accuracy and Reliability

-TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY
-INTRA-RATER RERLIABILITY
-INTER-RATER RELIABLITY

 Qualities of a Good polygraph Examiner

-IMPARTIAL SEEKER OF TRUTH
-ALWAYS EXAMINE PROFESSIONALLY AND ETHICALLY
-TO MAKE HIMSELF UNDERSTAND AND NOT TO RESENTED BY
THE SUBJECT, BY HIS VERY EXPOSURE TO HIM
-ABILITY TO ESTABLISH OR CREATE A RAPPORT WITH THE
SUBJECT
 -MUCH INVESTIGATIVE EXPERIENCE AS POSSIBLE
-INTERROGATION EXPERIENCE
-MUST BE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN HIS WORK EVEN BEYOND THE
CALL OF DUTY
-IN GOOD EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
-INTELLIGENT AND SOME DEGREE OF MATURITY
-POSSESSED WITH A SENSE OF VALUES.

 Factors Affecting the accuracy of Polygraph Examination Result

- THE POLYGRAPH INSTRUMENT

- THE CONDITION OF THE SUBJECT

- THE CONDITION OF THE EXAMINATION ROOM
- THE QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS OF THE EXAMINER
- GOOD TEAMWORK BY THE INVESTIGATOR, POLYGRAPH
EXAMINER AND THEIR SUPERIORS.