2012职称英语综合B类模拟练习题九

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-15 23:30:26

Why Would They Falsely Confess?
Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To most people, it just doesnt seem logical. But it is logical, say experts, if you understand what can happen in a police interrogation (审讯) room.
Under the right conditions, peoples minds are susceptible (易受影响的) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during police questioning is enormous. 46 “The pressure is important to understand, because otherwise its impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didnt do. The answer is: to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess.”
Developmental psychologist Mary Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didnt do. 47 The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the “alt” key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility.
Redlich’s findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess: 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed. 48 Of the 15 to 16 yearolds, 72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12 to 13 year olds.
“Theres no question that young people are more at risk,”says Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at Williams College, who has done similar studies with similar results. 49
Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire “interrogation” in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation—not hours of aggressive questioning—and still, most participants falsely confessed.
50  “In some ways,”says Kassin, “false confession becomes a rational decision.”
A  In her experiment, participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the “alt” key,
   because doing so would crash the systems.
B  Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become
   convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.
  C  “Its a little like somebodys working on them with a dental (牙齿的) drill,”says
   Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
  D  “But the baseline is that adults are highly vulnerable too.”
  E  The court found him innocent and he was released.
  F  Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.
46.C47.A48.F49.D50.B

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[职称英语模拟] 2012职称英语综合B类模拟练习题九