HOLY CHILD COLLEGES OF BUTUAN

COLLEGE OF CRIMINOLOGY
1st SEMESTER 2014-2015
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
POLYGRAPHY- (LIE DETECTION)
MULTIPLE CHOICES: Write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Most common and scientific method of detecting deception.
a. Polygraphy
b. Polygraph
c. Truth serum
d. Interrogation
2. Refers to an act of deceiving or misleading usually accomplished by lying.
a. Detection
b. Confession
c. Deception
d. Admission
3. Refers to the act of discovering the existence, presence or facts of something hidden.
a. Detection
b. Confession
c. Deception
d. Admission
4. The study of manipulating the mind to cause bodily reactions.
a. Lie
b. Deception
b. Detection
d. Psychophysiology
5. It is an instrument that graphically records some of the known physiological indicators
of deception.
a. Polygraphy
b. Polygraph
c. Photograph
d. Lie Detection
6. It is a common method of deciding guilt or innocence and a practice of referring
disputed questions to the judgment of God, determined by various means particularly
by physical test.
a. Ordeal
b. Wager of Battle
c. Red Hot Iron Ordeal
d. Ordeal by Balance
7. The judgment of God was thought to determine the winner and the defeated party
was allowed to live as a recreant, that is, on retracting the perjury that had been
sworn.
a. Ordeal
b. Wager of Battle
c. Red Hot Iron Ordeal
d. Ordeal by Balance
8. It was practiced in the hill tribe of north Bengal.
a. Ordeal
b. Wager of Battle
c. Red Hot Iron Ordeal
d. Ordeal by Balance
9. It was practiced in the institute of Vishnu, India.
a. Ordeal
b. Wager of Battle
c. Red Hot Iron Ordeal
d. Ordeal by Balance
10. In this type of ordeal, the water was symbolic of the flood of the old testament,
washing sin from the face of the earth, allowing only the righteous minority to survive.
a. Ordeal by Water
b. Ordeal by rice chewing
c. Ordeal of the red water
d. Ordeal by combat
11. The primitive practice of detecting deception whereby controversies in accusations
are settled by means of a duel, the victor will be spared from the consequences
while the loser will be pronounced guilty.
a. Ordeal by Water
b. Ordeal by rice chewing
c. Ordeal of the red water
d. Ordeal by combat
12. It is performed with a kind of rice called sathee, prepared with various incantations.
a. Ordeal by Water
b. Ordeal by rice chewing
c. Ordeal of the red water
d. Ordeal by combat
13. It was used in the wide region of eastern Africa.
a. Ordeal by Water
b. Ordeal by rice chewing
c. Ordeal of the red water
d. Ordeal by combat

14. It was made to pierce the lower lip of the alleged criminal and if blood flowed from
the wound, he was deemed guilty, but if none, he is innocent.
a. Ordeal of the needle
b. Ordeal by heat and fire
c. Trial of the waxen shirt
d. Ordeal of the tiger
15. The accused was dressed in cloth covered with was and walked barefooted over
burning coals. If he was unhurt by the fire and the wax did not melt, he was
considered innocent.
a. Ordeal of the needle
b. Ordeal by heat and fire
c. Trial of the waxen shirt
d. Ordeal of the tiger
16. It was practiced in Siam, the accused and accuser are place inside a cage of a tiger,
if the tiger spare one of them he is considered innocent.
a. Ordeal of the needle
b. Ordeal by heat and fire
c. Trial of the waxen shirt
d. Ordeal of the tiger
17. The accused walked barefooted over red hot coals or was made to walk through
fire, if he was unharmed by fire he was considered innocent.
a. Ordeal of the needle
b. Ordeal by heat and fire
c. Trial of the waxen shirt
d. Ordeal of the tiger
18. Encompasses patterns in the body movements, gestures, facial expression, body
posture, positioning and movements used to explain chosen words.
a. Non-Verbal Clues
b. Verbal Clues
c. Pallor of the face
d. blushing
19. Indicates anger and humiliation or embarrassment and cannot be controlled.
a. Non-Verbal Clues
b. Verbal Clues
c. Pallor of the face
d. blushing
20. Include the words that are spoken, speed of delivery of the words, choice of words,
tone of voice and the tense of the language.
a. Non-Verbal Clues
b. Verbal Clues
c. Pallor of the face
d. blushing
21. Indicates of tension, fear and anxiety.
a. Non-Verbal Clues
b. Verbal Clues
c. Pallor of the face
d. blushing
22. It is a manifestation of chock-fear and anxiety.
a. Cold clammy perspiration
b. Sweating in an air-conditioned or well ventilated
room
c. Crying while being investigated d. frequent swallowing
23. Maybe an indicative of tension, depression, anger, humiliation and sometimes a
demonstration to prove his innocence about the crime in dispute.
a. Cold clammy perspiration
b. Sweating in an air-conditioned or well ventilated
room
c. Crying while being investigated d. frequent swallowing
24. A dry mouth frequently accompanies deep emotion.
a. Cold clammy perspiration
b. Sweating in an air-conditioned or well ventilated
room
c. Crying while being investigated d. frequent swallowing
25. These are often performed deliberately, these are expressions made with the body,
whose meaning are clearly understood.
a. Emblems
b. Oaths
c. Slip of the tongue
d. Tirades
26. A statement or declaration that is not true.
a. Lie
b. Deception
b. Detection
d. Psychophysiology
27. A chronic lie purely used to mislead justice, a pure dishonesty to obstruct justice.
a. Red lie
b. Malicious lies
c. white lies
d. Black liar
28. This lie is used to destroy other ideologies by means of propaganda.
a. Red lie
b. Malicious lies
c. white lies
d. Black liar

29. It used to maintain harmony of friendship, harmony of the home or office.

a. Red lie
b. Malicious lies
c. white lies
d. Black liar
30. A person who always pretends and a hypocrite.
a. Red lie
b. Malicious lies
c. white lies
d. Black liar
31. Considered as the father of the modern polygraphy.
a. William Moulton Marston
c. Leonarde Keeler
b. John Larson
d. Cesare Lombroso
32. He designed a kymograph that pulled at a constant speed, a chart paper under the
recording pens from a roll of chart paper located inside the instrument.
a. William Moulton Marston
c. Leonarde Keeler
b. John Larson
d. Cesare Lombroso
33. A test used to record physiological changes associate with the lying subject.
a. Lie detector test
c. Narco-analysis or narco synthesis
b. Use of alcoholic beverages
d. Stimulus or word association test
34. The first one to introduce hypnotism as a method of detecting deception.
a. Anton Mesmer
c. Allen Bell
b. Francis Galton
d. Richard I. Golden
35. Conceived the psychological sit theory that forms the basis of his zone of
comparison technique that provides constant monitoring of the subjects reactivity and
designed to disclose outside issue.
a. John E. Reid
c. Cleve Backster
b. Harold Burtt
d. Vittorio Benussi
36. Developed the reviewed control question consisting of a known lie incorporated
into relevant- irrelevant test.
a. John E. Reid
c. Cleve Backster
b. Harold Burtt
d. Vittorio Benussi
37. He demonstrated the changes in breathing patterns by noting the changes in
respiration expiration ratio during deception.
a. John E. Reid
c. Cleve Backster
b. Harold Burtt
d. Vittorio Benussi
38. He found out that changes in systolic blood pressure were of greater value in
determining deception than in changes in respiration.
a. John E. Reid
c. Cleve Backster
b. Harold Burtt
d. Vittorio Benussi
39. He was the first one to use the term psychogalvanic reflex.
a. Veraguth
c. Sticker
b. Luigi Galvani
d. Leonarde Keeler
40. He is Italian physiologist who was accorded the distinction for developing the
galvanic skin reflex (GSR) or the galvanometer, which records electrical bodily
resistance in terms of ohms, the lowest current ever recorded.
a. Veraguth
c. Sticker
b. Luigi Galvani
d. Leonarde Keeler
41. He employed the first scientific instrument to detect deception, which is known as
hydrossphymograph.
a. William Moulton Marston
c. Leonarde Keeler
b. John Larson
d. Cesare Lombroso
42. 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
c. William Moulton Marston
b. Luigi Galvani
d. Sir James Mackenzie
43. He made the first suggestion for using galvanograph for detecting deception based
on the works of several predecessors.
a. Veraguth
c. Sticker
b. Luigi Galvani
d. Leonarde Keeler

44. The famous heart specialist. It was said that polygraph exists as early as 1906 but
it is not being used to detect deception.
a. Sir James Mackenzie
c. Vittorio Benussi
b. Richard O. Archer
d. Richard I. Golden
45. 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. Sir James Mackenzie
c. Vittorio Benussi
b. Richard O. Archer
d. Richard I. Golden
46. He developed the much acclaimed psychological test known as the World
Association Test, whereby the patient is presented with group of words sufficiently
separated in time to allow the patient to utter his first thought generated by each
word.
a. Anton Mesmer
c. Allen Bell
b. Francis Galton
d. Richard I. Golden
47. He is an American inventor who developed a device called psychological stress
evaluator (PSE).
a. Anton Mesmer
c. Allen Bell
b. Francis Galton
d. Richard I. Golden
48. This is also called electro-dermal activity, and is basically a measure of the sweat on
your fingertips.
a. Blood-pressure cuff
c. Transducers
b. Galvanic skin resistance
d. Bellows
49. A test used to record physiological changes associate with the lying subject.
a. Lie detector test
c. Narco-analysis or narco synthesis
b. Use of alcoholic beverages
d. Stimulus or word association test
50. It is designed to detect changes in respiration of the subject.
a. Galvanograph Component
c. Cardio-sphymograph Component
b. Kymograph Component
d. Pneumograph Component