DUMLAO JAMAICA LIE DETECTION QUESTIONAIRE
1. It refers to the scientific method of detecting deception with the use of a polygraph instrument.
a. Hydrosphygmograph b. Photographyc. Lie detector d. Polygraphy
2. The one who employed the 1st scientific instrument to detect deception.
a. Cesare Beccaria b. John Larson c. Veraguth d. Cesare lombroso
3. He developed the Polygraph, an instrument capable of continously records blood pressure, pulse and
respiration.
A. John Loud b. Angel Mosso c. John Larson d. Cesare Lombroso
4. He was attributed as the "father of modern polygraph "
a. Mackenzie b. John Larson c. Leonarde Keeler d. Cesare Lombroso
5. One of the components of polygraph machine which has 5 inches recording pen.
a. Galvanograph b. Pneumograph c. Keymograph d. Cardisphygmograph
6. It consists series of relevant and irrelevant questions ask in a planned order
a. Peak of tension test b. General question test
c. Guilty of complex test d. Word association test
7. What kind of question by which the subject may be given this test if he is not yet informed of the
details of the offense for which he is interrogated.
a. General question test b. Peak of tension test
c. Relevant question d. Word association test
8. It is being applied when the response to relevant and control questions are similar in degree and in
consistency.
a. Hypnosis b. Guilt of tension test c. Guilt of complex test d. WAT
9. It is the alteration of consciousness and concentration in which the subject manifests a heightened of
suggestibility while awareness is maintained.
a. WAT b. Hypnosis c. Ordeal d. Intoxication
10. It deals with the matter under investigation.
a. Irrelevant question b. Silent question c. Control question d. Relevant question
11. It is being given fo determining information known or the subject possess.
a. Control question b. Peak of tension test c. Knowledge question d. Relevant
12. Given by the subject which considered a deviation from normal tracing.
a. Normal response b. Specific response c. Response d. None of the above
13. Any activity or inhibition of a previous activity of an organism resulting from stimulation.
a. Normal response b. Specific response c. Response d. Deviation
14. It is a direct acknowledgement of guilt or a statement of guilt.
a. Admission b. Extra judicial admission c. Confession d. All of these
15. He made use of an instrument called plethysmograph in his research on emotion of fear and its
influence on the heart and respiration.
a. Mosso b. Defoe c. Sticker d. Larson
16. He developed the control question which consist of a known lie and incorporated in into the
relevant/irrelevant technique.
a. Ruckmick b. Backster c. Arther d. John Reid
17. The process that encompasses all activity that takes place between a polygraph examiner and an
examinee during a specific series of interactions.
a. Polygraph evaluation b. Polygraph test c. Polygraph examination d. Polygraphy
18. A statement of facts, partial acknowledgement of guilt and usually given with some justification or
exemplification in admitting.
a. Confession b. Extra judicial confession c. Admission d. None of these
19. It refers to the failure to detect the presence of a event or item
a. False negative b. False positive c. False result d. Negative result
20. It refers to an emotional response to a specific danger, which appears to go beyond a persons
defensive power.
a. Fear b. Stimuli c. Response d. Reaction
21. It refers to the ancient practices in detecting deception wherein an accuser will fight against the
accused in a duel and who ever lost the fight will be adjudged guilt.
a. Red hot iron ordeal b. Rice chewing ordeal
c. Balance ordeal d. Trial by combat
22. American psychologist who constructed an instrument in 1926 which is capable of continously
recording all the three phenomena, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
a. John Larson b. Leonard Keeler c. John Reid d. Mearcelo Malphigi
23. He is the heart specialist who is credited for the invention of the ink polygraph
a. Sticker b. Veraguth c. James Mackenzie d. Cleve Backster
24. The use of truth serums such as sodium penthotal or phenobarbi in the questioning of suspect is
called
a. Narcoanalysis b. Sugar and vinegar c. In vino veritas d. Word association test
25. This component records the changes in thr breathing of the subject.
a. Cardio sphygmograph b. Sphygmomanometer
c. Galvanograph d.Pneumograph
26. Which among the following statement is not among the limitations of the Polygraph?
a. It is only accurate if the examiner is competent
b. It is admissible as evidence
C. It is an aid and not a substitute for investigation
d. It is a scientific diagnostic instrument which records responses
27. One of this is a principal use of polygraph instrument.
a. Invaluable aid in investigation b. To determine the facts of the case
c. To determine the guilt or innocence of the subject d. A verygood substitute of the investigation
28. A test undertaken when the subject is not aware of the details of the offense for which he jd under
scrutiny.
a. Guilt complex test b. Silent answer test. c. Peak of tension test d. Narrative type
29.
30. All except one is a purpose of polygraph examination.
a. To determine truth and deception in the Polygraph examiners view
b. To determine truth and deception in a police investigation
c. To determine truth and deception based on the presence emotional disturbance
d. To determine truth and deception for legal matters
31. A list of stimulus and non stimulus words are read to the subject who isinstructed to answer as
quickly as possible.
a. Card test b. Hypnosis c. Word association test d. P. S. E
32. When the person is under the influence of physical exertion or emotional stimuli, the sympathetic
will dominate and over rid the parasympathetic, thus there will be changes in the heart rate, blood
pressure, respiratory pattern, psycho Galvanic reflexes, time of response to question, and voice tracing.
a. True b. Partially true c. False d. Partially false
33. This is common method of deciding guilt or innocence.
a. Truth serum b. Ordeal c. Intoxication d. NOTA
34. It refers to the downward blood pressure representing the low pressure to the closing of the valves
and heart relaxed.
a. Distolic blood pressure b. Systolic blood pressure
c. Diastolic blood pressure d. Distolic blood pressure
35. Is any force or motion coming from the environment and when reach an organism has tendency to
arouse.
a. Fear b. Response c. React d. Stimulus
36. It is considered as an earliest known reference to a method of detecting deception.
a. Indian hemp b. Ayur c. Vida d. Ayur Vida
37. He suggested that the changes in respiration were an indication of deception.
a. Jason Born b. John Larson c. Leonard Keeler d. Harold Burtt
38. It is a kind of lie wherein the main goal is to maintain law and order.
a. Noble lie b. Benign lie c. Leonard Keeler d. Emergency lie
39. A kind of lie by which it's misleads an investigator on what is truly happen in the crime scene.
a. Red lie b. Perjury c. Malicious lie d. Black lie
40. He focuses on the formulation of the inhalation and exhalation ratio.
a. Mosso b. Bennusi c. Arthur d. Marston
41. What component of the Polygraph by which it has a 7 inches pen
a. Galvanograph b. Keymograph
c. Pneumograph d. Cardiograph
42. Red hot iron ordeal is one of the common ordeals practiced by many countries in the primitive days.
This ordeal originated from.
a. Burma b. Madagascar c. Bengal d. Nigeria
43. This ordeal is practiced in India where they made used of a scale of balance to determine the guilt of
the accused.
a. Red hot iron ordeal b. Ordeal of balance
c. Ordeal of water d. Ordeal by rice chewing
44. Who invented hydrosphygmograph the first scientific instrument in detecting deception.
a. Angelo Mosso b. Cessre Lombroso
c. William Moulton Marston d. Leonarde keeler
45. He was the first to use the term "psychogalvanic skin reflex. " He stated that the electrical
phenomenon is due to the activity of sweat glands.
a. Luigi Galvani b. Sticker c. Veraguth d. Leonarde Keeler
46. Who developed the relevant-irrelevant test, personally embarrassing question and surprise
question.
a. Leonarde Keeler b. John Reid c. Cleve Backster d. Sigmund Freud
47. This liar shoes no regret for his dishonest action d and no manifestation of guilt. He is the most
difficult type of liar as he can fool investigators.
a. Psycholopatic liar b. Pathological liar c. Ethological liar d. Black liar
48. Is one who was taught not to be a squeler.
a. Panic liar b. Occupational liar c. Ethological liar d. Nervous liar
49. A lie use to maintain harmony in the home or friendship in the office.
a. Malicious lie b. Red lie c. White lie d. Black lie
50. Is one who lies in order to avoid the consequences of confession for he believes that confession will
just make the matter worst.
a. Panic liar b. Occupational liar c. Tournament liar d. Psychopathic liar
51. Is someone who has lied for spare years. He is the kind of person which is called practical liar and lies
when it has higher "pay off" than telling the truth.
a. Panic liar b. Occupational liar c. Tournament liar d. Psychopatic liar
52. This is the type of liar where the person lie because it is the only weapon remaining to defend his
side.
a. Panic liar b. Occupational liar c. Tournament liar d. Psychopathic liar
53. It refers to a person who cannot really distinguish right from wrong.
a. Pathological liar b. Panic liar c. Tournament liar d. Occupational liar
54. The kind of lie of a person that has something to do with communist propaganda that is against the
government of the country.
a. White lie b. Red lie c. Black lie d. All of the above
55. It drives or pulls the chart paper.
a. Pneumograph b. Galvanograph c. Cardiograph d. Keymograph
56. These are question which have no bearing to the case under investigation.
a. Control b. Relevant c. Irrelevant d. Supplementary
57. An Austrian known as the father of Criminalistics defined search for truth as the basis and goal of all
criminal investigation.
a. Dr. Hans Gross b. Angel Mosso c. William Marston d. Cesare Lombroso
58. In the etymology of polygraph, poly means_________ and graph also means writings.
a. Multi b. Many c. Anti d. Lie
59. Polygraph records the_______changes of a normal person whenever he is consciously telling a lie.
a. Psychological b. Physiological c. Mechanical d. All of the above
60. The accused was put into a severe physical test.
a. Trial by combat b. Trial by torture c. Ordeal of the red water d. Drinking ordeal
61. The accused was compelled to walk bare footed through a fire, if he remains unhurt then he is
innocent.
a. Ordeal by heat and fire b. Ordeal of the boiling oil or water
c. Trial by combat d. Trial of the eucharist
62. Accuser and accused were placed together in the same and a tiger set loose upon them. If both were
spared, further elimination followed.
a. Ordeal of the tiger b. Ordeal of the boiling oil
c. Ordeal by heat and fire d. Trial by combat
63. It is a method of ordeal where all accused persons will be instructed to select a cage with a donkey,
using a donkey’s tail they will strike the donkey and whichever cries first will be adjudged guilty.
a. Donkeys tail ordeal c. Ordeal of the tiger
b. Ordeal by heat and fire d. Trial by combat
64. Is the medieval Latin word from which the word ordeal was derived.
a. Lie indricum b. Judicuum lie c. Dei indicum d. Die indicum
65. An early scientist to developed an instrument known "pulsiologium" designed to measure heart
frequency.
a. Newton b. Erasistratus c. Grahambell d. Galileo
66. Who developed the zone comparison test technique, which used in polygraph examination.
a. Cleve Backster b. Leonarde Keeler c. Allan Kate d. William Marston
67. Its function is to record the skin resistancs of the subject.
a. Galvanograph b. Keymograph c. Pneumograph d. Cardiosphygmograph
68. The component of the Polygraph that records the blood pressure of the subject.
a. Pneumograph b. Cardiosphygmograph c. Keymograph d. Galvanograph
69. It is attached to the subject's arm, around their brachial artery.
a. Infant cuff b. Hand cuff c. Arm cuff d. None of the above
70. In 1914, this pioneer in the field of lie detection published an account or research on respiration
changes as symptoms of deception.
a. William Marston b. Vitterio Benussi
c. Leonae Keeler d. Harold Burtt
71. Among the physiological changes that may be recorded and identified are those that automatically
occur only following stimulation of those specific nervous system components can reliably diagnosed.
a. Mechanical leg premise b. Physiological leg basis premise
C. Psychological leg basis premise d. None of the above
72. It is the main effectors mechanism which the Polygraph are concerned.
a. Central nervous system b. Autonomic Nervous System
c. Sympathetic nervous system d. Parasympathetic nervous system
73. The Polygraph examination enjoys general acceptance among varied authorities, except the court
because it possess a high degree or reliability, the results is estimated to be more than ____ %accurate.
a. 70 b. 75 c. 80 d. 90
74. Its role is to maintain the homeostasis of the body necessary for normal functioning.
a. Autonomic nervous system b. Sympathetic nervous system
c. Central nervous system d. Parasympathetic nervous system
75. Mechanical instrument constructed through tangible items.
a. Digital b. Polygraph c. Analog d. None of the above
76. This is also called electro dermal activity, and is basically to measure of the sweat on your fingertips.
a. Blood pressure cuff b. Galvanic skin resistance
c. Transducers d. Bellows
77. The first one to introduced hypnotism as a method of detecting deception.
a. Anton Mesmer b. Francis Galton c. Allen Bell d. Richard Golden
78. He is Italian physiologist who was accorded the distinction for developing the galvanic reflex (GSR) or
the galvanometer, which records electrical bodily resistance in terms of ohms, the lowest count ever
recorded.
a. Veraguth b. Luigi Galvani
c. William Moulton Marston d. James Mackenzie
79. He developed the sphygmomanometer and scientific cradle which was designed to measure the flow
of blood while a person lay on his back in a prone position.
a. Angelo Mosso b. Luigi Galvani
c. William Moulton Marston d. James mackenzie
80. The first polygraphist to record simultaneously on regular basis the chest and abdominal breathing
patterns. He was also the first on to record simultaneously two galvanic skin reflexes.
a. James Mackenzie b. Richard O. Archer
c. Vittorio Benussi d. Richard Golden
81. He is an American inventor who developed a device called psychological stress evaluator.
a. Anton Mesmer b. Francis Galton c. Allen Bell d. Richard Golden
82. Corrugated rubber bellows with the aid of beaded chain should be fastened on the subjects!
a. Abdomen and chest b. Hips c. Waistline d. Neck
83. It is that section of polygraph machine designed to run the paper at a regular speed of 6 inches per
minute.
a. Keymograph b. Galvanograph c. Pneumograph d. Pen and ink system
84. It is that part of galvanograph component which is attached to the body of the subject with the
length of 10 inches.
a. Amplifier unit b. Finger electrode plate
c. Resonance control d. Sensitivity knob
85. It is that part of pneumograph component which is attached to the body of the subject with the
length of 10 inches.
a. Beaded chain b. Finger electrode plate
c. Rubber convulated tube d. Blood pressure cuff
86. An attachment of the cardiosphygmograph which is placed above the brachial artery.
a. Arm cuff b. Infant cuff c. Wrist cuff d. Hand cuff
87. Sets of electrodes are attached to what part of fingers.
a. Palmar or tips of finger of convenience b. Toes c. Ankles d. Neck.
88. It is that part of the cardiosphygmograph which indicates the amount of air pressure in the system
a. Air pump b. Arm cuff c. Sphygmomanometer d. Connecting flug
89. It is the normal rate of pulse best of an adult subject in a polygraph test.
a. 60-65 b. 70-75 c. 6-12 d. 13-15
90. Generally speaking, all person subjected to lie detector examination are all_______ and this creates
a set of distortion.
a. Terrified b. Nervous c. Convinient d. Confident
91. It is the force questioning of a person who is reluctant to give information.
a. Interview b. Interrogation c. d.
92. A polygraph test is not a substitute but merely an aid in_____?
a. Investigation b. Examination c. Testimony in court d. Conviction
93. Which of the physiological reactions recorded by the Polygraph instrument is considered
exosomatic reactions.
a. Respiration b. Blood pressure c. Pulse d. Skin resistance
94. Who determines the guilt of the subject in polygraph test.
a. Examiner b. Prosecutor c. Judged. Investigstor
95. It is the type of question designed to establish normal response from the subject.
a. Relevant b. Control c. Irrelevant d. Knowledge
96. A type of question designed to obtain a response from a innocent subject.
a. Irrelevant question b. Relevant question
c. Control question d. None of the above
97. This response is given by the subject in a relevant question which deviates from the normal tracing
are called.
a. Normal response b. Deceptive response
C. Specific response d. None
98. A type of liar who tells a lie due to mental disorder.
a. Amateur liar b. Pathological liar c. Professional liar d. Liar
99. In this particular technique, the relevant questions are compared with the control questions via
numerical scoring.
a. Relevant / irrelevant questionb. Concealed information question
c. Backzone comparison technique d. Comparison question technique
100. The following, except one, are the major components of polygraph instrument.
a. Pneumograph b. Keymograph c. Cardiosphygmograph d. Galvanograph
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