Forensic Science Test 1 Review

The word forensic refers to the application of scientific knowedge to legal questions?

• True

• False

Which is the correct order on how information is processed in the brain?

• Senses -> Attention -> Perception -> Short term memory -> Long term memory

• Senses -> Perception -> Attention -> Short term memory -> Long term memory

• Attention -> Senses -> Perception -> Short term memory -> Long term memory

• Senses -> Attention -> Perception -> Long term memory -> Short term memory

A forensic scientist is called to a court of law to provide

• Facts

• Opinion

• Judgment

• Reflection

What is the best description of the "Innocence Project"?

• Found that all convictions are correct

• Found that faulty eye witness identification led to wrongful convictions

• Found that suspects complete projects before a crime

• Found that projects can lead to convictions of unsolved crimes

Which of the following is NOT a task of a forensic scientist?

• Find evidence from a crime scene

• Examine evidence from a crime scene

• Evaluate evidence from crime scene

• Make arrests based on the evidence

Direct evidence includes:

• first-hand observations such as eyewitness accounts.

• second-hand observations

• circumstantial evidence

• None of these choices

Circumstantial evidence is

• direct evidence that can be used to imply a fact, but does directly prove it.

• indirect evidence that can be used to imply a fact, but does not directly prove it.

• indirect evidence that cannot be used to imply a fact

• None of these choices

Whenever two people come in contact with each other, a physical transfer occurs. To a forensic examiner, these transferred materials constitute what is called:

• trace evidence

• direct evidence

• class evidence.

• None of these choices.

Which is the BEST explaintion of "chain of custody"

• The chain of victims affected by the crime

• The evidence that is ruled inadmissible in court

• The people who are under arrest

• The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence

Hair is composed mostly of a protein called cellulose.​

• True

• False