Forensics Chapter 1 Test Review

True or false: A fact is a statement or information that can be verified.

• True
• False

True or false: What we perceive about persons depends, in part, on their mannerisms and gestures

• True
• False

True or False: Through our senses of sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch, we gather information every single moment about what is around us.

• True
• False

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NGSS.1-PS4-1

True or False: Our emotional state influences our ability to see and hear what is happening around us.

• True
• False

True or False: The first task of forensic scientists is to find, examine, and evaluate evidence from a crime scene.

• True
• False

One of the most important tools of the forensic investigator is the ability to:

• observe, interpret and report observations clearly
• observe assumptions clearly
• report assumptions clearly
• None of the above

Perception is

• is faulty
• does not always reflect reality
• is not always accurate
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Criminal investigations depend on the observation skills of all involved. Those involved include:

• police investigators
• witnesses
• forensic scientists
• all of the above

The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law was created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992. Its purpose was to reexamine post-conviction cases (individuals convicted and in prison) using:

• DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence
• DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of guilt
• eyewitness accounts to provide conclusive proof of innocence
• circumstantial evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence

Forensic derives from the Latin word, forensis, which means:

• of the day
• of the forum
• of the census
• of the month