Forensic Science Chapter 1

What is a Crime Scene Investigator?

• A person trained to record, collect and test evidence found at a crime scene.

• A person trained to help the FBI

• A person trained to record, collect and make false evidence available.

• An agent trained to ride unicorns.

What is evidence?

• Objects like rubber unicorns left at a dance party

• An excuse for a crime.

• Things left at a crime scene on purpose or accidentally

• Things left behind during a police training drill

What is a Witness?

• Someone who saw the crime take place

• Someone who has a friend who knows the person that committed the crime

• A person who is the victim's BFF

• A police officer who learned of the crime from a report

What is a suspect?

• An excuse that basically says, “I didn’t do it!

• Someone thought to have committed the crime

• A person who helped the criminal

• A person who spilled punch on his white tux

What is an accomplice?

• A person who helped the criminal

• A person who provides the evidence

• A person who examines the crime scene

• A person who helps the jury

Which of the following is the best definition of forensic science?

• The science of studying dead people

• The application of science to medicine

• The application of science to the law

• The study of poisons

Analytical Skills

• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified

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Deductive Reasoning

• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified

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Fact

• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

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how information is processed in the brain

• informatin from our senses, what we pay attention to, perception, short-term memory, long-term memory
• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts