PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Malingering, Polygraph
15 Aug 2016
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Frequency with which it occurs in everyday interactions. Argument that this can be adaptive in some situations. In general, people"s ability to accurately detect deception is equivalent to chance. Officer samples were more confident about their judgments than students, but they were no more accurate. None of the 3 groups showed significant improvement in deception- detection. Studied the deceit detection ability of customs officials, police officers, judges, secret service agents, fbi agents, and forensic psychiatrists. Only the secret service agents performed significantly above chance. Measures physical responses during questioning to determine if there are fluctuations in their physiological responses. Looking for arousal, changes in biological indicators: respiration, blood pressure, skin response. Figuring out how dangerous a sex offender is. Compares responses to questions that are relevant and irrelevant to the issue at hand the issue at hand. Have comparison questions that are unrelated to the issue at hand, but are expected to evoke a physiological response.
