PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rogation Days, False Evidence
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Instrumental confessions are those offered as a means to an end, to achieve some goal. (like to end the interrogation) Authentic false confessions are the result of confessor"s genuine but false belief that he or she may have committed the crime. Coerced false confessions are produced by the intense psychological pressure and voluntary false confessions are given freely by the confessor. Instrumental-coerced false confessions: long time interrogation, and they just give in the crime they did not committed. They think if they give in and they can live. Instrumental-voluntary false confessions occur suspects implicate themselves in crimes they did not commit to achieve some goal. They think they committed the crime, but they did not have memory of doing so. Authentic-voluntary false confession occurs when someone suffers from illusions. There are multiple confesses, because people suffer from the illusions. Police in canada and us are legally permitted to used false evidence ploys to induce a suspect to confess.
