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The document discusses guidelines for effective question framing in polygraph tests. It notes that the primary goal is to minimize false negatives to accurately identify security risks. There are three main types of questions: relevant questions that are directly related to the crime or investigation; comparison questions that are similar in topic but the subject should answer "no"; and irrelevant questions about neutral topics to measure baseline physiological responses. Specific guidelines are provided for each question type, such as avoiding legal jargon for relevant questions, carefully wording comparison questions to always be answered "no", and verifying the subject's knowledge of irrelevant question topics.

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The document discusses guidelines for effective question framing in polygraph tests. It notes that the primary goal is to minimize false negatives to accurately identify security risks. There are three main types of questions: relevant questions that are directly related to the crime or investigation; comparison questions that are similar in topic but the subject should answer "no"; and irrelevant questions about neutral topics to measure baseline physiological responses. Specific guidelines are provided for each question type, such as avoiding legal jargon for relevant questions, carefully wording comparison questions to always be answered "no", and verifying the subject's knowledge of irrelevant question topics.

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UMBAR, SHALIMAR B.

FORENSIC 5 2/7/23

3RD YEAR COLLEGE

BS – CRIMINOLOGY

PERFORMANCE TASK 3

Answer the following questions

1. What is the importance of framing effective questions for use in the polygraph test?
The primary purpose of the polygraph test in security screening is to identify
individuals who present serious threats to national security. To put this in the language of
diagnostic testing, the goal is to reduce to a minimum the number of false negative cases
(serious security risks who pass the diagnostic screen).
2. What are the general guidelines for framing effective questions?
All polygraph questioning techniques that aim at some form of standardization or
reproducibility involve comparisons of physiological responses to questions of central
interest for the investigation or screening (relevant questions) against physiological
responses to other questions (comparison questions). Questioning techniques may differ
in the nature of the comparison questions, the sequencing of questions, or the choice of
which comparison questions in a sequence of questions will be compared with which
relevant questions. They are also typically associated with particular approaches to
conducting pretest interviews and interpreting polygraph charts. This appendix briefly
describes some of the main polygraph questioning techniques and some of their variants.
3. What are the different kinds of tests questions used in polygraph tests?
A question format used in polygraph testing in which physiological responses
accompanying questions relevant to a crime are compared with responses accompanying
questions irrelevant to the crime.
These questions include asking whether the examinee perpetrated the target act or
knows who did it and perhaps questions about particular pieces of evidence that would
incriminate the guilty person. An irrelevant question is one designed to provoke no
emotion.
4. What are the specific guideline for framing/using effective items for each type of
questions?
Relevant Questions:
 Avoid using legal or technical jargon
 Solve a central problem in the investigation
 Answerable by yes or no
 Use qualifiers such as “aside from” at the beginning of the question
 Avoid emotional words that can produce strong reactions
Comparison Questions:
 Be carefully worded so that the answer will always be “NO”
 Be broader in scope than a relevant question
 Same topic as the case being investigated
 Avoid sex-related topics except in cases which revolves around a sexual behavior
 Cover a topic wherein the subject is likely to lie
 Avoid questions related to religion, politics, race or personal information than
may humiliate the subject
Irrelevant Questions:
 Discuss the questions with the subject
 Group items of similar emotional content
 Use five to seven items in a set as a rule of thumb
 Verify if the subject is knowledgeable about the topic

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