Ch. 1 Obersvation Skills

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

• True

• False

What we perceive about people depends, in part, on their mannerisms and gestures.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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

• True

• 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 reports observations clearly

• observe assumptions clearly

• report assumptions clearly

• none of these

Perception:

• is faulty

• is not always accurate

• does not always reflect reality

• all of these choices

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

• police investigators

• forensic scientists

• witnesses

• all of these choices

The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law was created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J, Neufield 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 month

• of the concensus

• of the forum