PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Takers, False Alarm, Psych
1 Nov 2016
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Reason: desire for notoriety, deficient reality testing; mental illness, desire to atone for other sins or offenses. Believe they deserve punishment for other crimes that they have convicted. Instrumental made to achieve a specific goal. Reid model likely to lead to such confessions. Confession is false, but suspect comes to believe it. Least studied because it is the least common. Conditions that appears to be associated with this type of confession: history of substance abuse. Inability to distinguish between suggestion and personal experience. Hypnotized individual: anxiety, guilt over something. Innocent: nothing happens: guilty: induced by confederate to assist on independent problem. Answer similarity discovered; researcher (blind- does(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)ho is (cid:449)ho) interrogates participants: some of the participants have done nothing, others did collaborate. Results: 40% confessing when no deal is offered for true confessions, when deals are piled on top it gets up to 80% for true confessions.
