MCQ in Criminalistics Part 8 | Licensure Exam for Criminologist

This is the Criminology Reviewer 2021, Multiple Choice Questions in Criminalistics Part 8 as one coverage of Licensure Examinations for Criminologist. The examination is divided into six subjects. First is the Criminal Jurisprudence and Procedure, 20%. Second,  Law Enforcement Administration, 20%. Third,  Crime Detection and Investigation, 15%. Fourth, Criminalistics, 20%. Fifth, Correctional Administration, 10%. Lastly, Criminal Sociology, 15% for a total of 100%. I assume you are looking for a reviewer that will help you achieve your goal to become a professional License Criminologist very soon. Yes, you are in the right place to make your dream come true. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the Licensure Examinations for Criminologist.

PRC BOARD OF CRIMINOLOGY SYLLABI 2021

1. Criminal Jurisprudence and Procedure – 20%

• Introduction to Philippine Criminal Justice System
• Human Rights Education
• Criminal Law Book 1
• Criminal law Book 2
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Court Testimony
• Related Special Penal Laws

2. Law Enforcement Administration – 20%

• Comparative Models in Policing,
• Introduction to Industrial Security Concepts
• Law Enforcement Operations and Planning with Crime Mapping

3. Crime Detection and Investigation – 15%

• Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation with
  Intelligence
• Specialized Crime Investigation 1
  with Legal Medicine
• Specialized Crime Investigation with Simulation on Investigation
  and Interview
• Traffic Management and Accident Investigation with Driving
• Technical English 1 (Investigative Report Writing and Presentation)
• Fire Protection and Arson Investigation
• Vice and Drug Education and Control
• Technical English 2 (Legal Forms)
• Introduction to Cybercrime and Environmental Laws and Protection

4. Criminalistics – 20%

• Forensic Photography
• Personal Identification Techniques
• Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology
• Questioned Documents Examination
• Lie Detection Techniques
• Forensic Ballistics

5. Correctional Administration – 10%

• Institutional Corrections
• Non-Institutional Corrections
• Therapeutic Modalities

6. Criminal Sociology – 15%

• Introduction to Criminology
• Theories of Crime Causation
• Human Behavior and Victimology
• Professional Conduct and Ethical Standard
• Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice System
• Dispute Resolution and Crises/Incidents Management
• Criminological Research 1 (Research methods with Applied Statistics)

Source: RA No. 11131 “The Philippine Criminology Profession Act of 2018” | Professional Regulatory Board of Criminology Resolution No. 01 Series of 2021

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

351.  Using the Psychological Stress Evaluator, a lying subject or when a person is under stress, the frequencies ________.

a.    Tends to disappear

b.    Rise

c.    Increases

d.    Stop

352.  This test not concerned with the answer whether it is yes or no, what is important is the tire of response in relation to delay the answer.

a.    Word Association Test

b.    Psychological Stress Evaluator

c.    Truth Serum

d.    Water Therapy

353.  It refers to the composite records of pneumograph, galvanograph, and cardiosphygmograph tracings recorded from series of question

a.    Polygrams

b.    Chart

c.    Subject

d.    A & B

354.  A test undertaken when the subject is not aware of the details of the offense for which he is under scrutiny.

a.    Guilt Complex Test

b.    Silent Answer Test

c.    Peak of Tension Test

d.    Narrative

355.  When response to control questions is consistently similar this is administered.

a.    Guilt complex test

b.    Silent answer Test

c.    Peak of Tension Test

d.    Narrative

356.  It is a tracing on the chart wherein the subject answered in the irrelevant question.

a.    Normal Tracing

b.    Normal Response

c.    Specific Response

d.    Response

357.  This test uses Hyoscine Hydrobromide Drug that is administered hypodermically which produces a state of delirium.

a.    Hypnotism

b.    Narco-analysis

c.    Narco-synthesis

d.    Administration of truth serum

358.  It is base on the maxim “in vino veritas”.

a.   Hypnotism

b.    Narco -analysis

c.    Narco-Synthesis

d.    Intoxication with the use of alcoholic beverages

359.  It is any deviation from the normal tracing of the subject.

a.    Normal Response

b.    Specific Response

c.    Polygrams

d.    Response

360.  In this examination, psychiatric sodium pentothal is administered.

a.    Hypnotism

b.    Narco-analysis

c.    Intoxication with the use of alcoholic beverages

d.    Administration of truth scrum

361.  The most common scientific method of detecting deception.

a.    Polygraphy

b.    Polygraph

c.    Truth Serum

d.    Interrogation

362.  He devised an instrument capable of continuously recording pulse rate, respiration and blood   pressure.

a.    William Marston

b.    Angelo Mosso

c.    John Larson

d.    Sticker

363.  Psychological Response to any demand.

a.    Reaction

b.   Stress

c.    Pressure

d.    All of these

364.  He is the father of Criminalistic.

a.   Cesare Lombroso

b.    Godard

c.    Hans Gross

d.    Becarria

365.  A subject must have at least how many hours of sleep to be considered fit for polygraph examination

a.    5

b.    6

c.    7

d.   8

366.  It is a type of question related to the facts of the case.

a.    Relevant question

b.    Irrelevant question

c.    General Question

d.    Immaterial Question

367.  He states that FEAR influenced the heart and could be used as a basis for detecting deception

a.    Marston

b.    Larson

c.    Mosso

d.    Verguth

368.  An act of discovery that is indicative of the fact that something is hidden or obscure.

a.    Fear

b.    Deception

c.    Detection

d.    Reaction

369.  An inhibition of a previous activity of an organism as a result of stimulation.

a.    Response

b.    Reaction

c.    Stimuli

d.    Fear

370.  It refers to an emotional response to a specific danger which appears to go beyond a person’s defensive power.

a.    Response

b.    Deception

c.   Stimuli

d.    Fear

371.  This component drives the chart paper under the recording pen simultaneously at the rate of 6 to 12 inches per minute.

a.    Cardiosphygmograph

b.    Kymograph

c.    Stimuli

d.    Fear

372.  A part of the galvanograph attached to the left fingers of the subject.

a.    Finger electrode plate

b.    Diacritic notch

c.    Rubber convoluted tube

d.    Kymograph

373.  This component record changes of the subject’s blood pressure and pulse rate.

a.    Cardiosphygmograph

b.   Sphygmomanometer

c.    Galvanograph

d.    Pneumograph

374.  It records the subject’s skin resistance to a small amount of electricity.

a.    Cardiosphygmograph

b.    Sphygmomanometer

c.    Galvanograph

d.   Pneumograph

375.  This component records the changes in the breathing of the subject.

a.    Cardiosphygmograph

b.    Sphygmomanometer

c.    Galvanograph

d.    Pneumnograph

376.  A kind of lie wherein a person assumes another identity to deceive others.

a.    Black Lie

b.    White Lie

c.   Red Lie

d.    Yellow Lie

377.  It is a deviation from normal tracing of the subject in the relevant question

a.    Reaction

b.    Normal Response

c.    Specific Response

d.    Positive Response

378.  Chart tracing of the subject when irrelevant questions were answered.

a. Reaction

b. Normal Response

c. Specific Response

d. Positive Response

379.  Normal time interval for pre-test interview.

a.    20 to 30minutes

b.    30 to 60 minutes

c.    60 to 90 minutes

d     90 to 120 minutes

380.  What is the primary objective of the post-test interview?

a.    To thank the subject

b.   To obtain confession

c.   To make the subject calm

d.   To explain polygraph test procedures

381.  What is the purpose of the pre-test interview?

a.    To prepare the subject for polygraph test

b.   To obtain confession

c.    To make the subject calm

d.    To explain polygraph test procedures

382.  Test undertaken when both relevant and control questions are similar in degree and consistency.

a.    Guilt complex test

b.    Silent answer Test

c   Peak of Tension Test

d.    None of these

383.  It refers to questions to ascertain the subject’s normal pattern of response.

a.    Relevant Questions

b.    Irrelevant Questions

c.   Supplementary Questions

d.    Control Questions

384.  The number of basic tracings in a modern polygraph.

a.    3

b.    4

c.    5

d.    6

385.  Did you hide Senator Lacson in your in your beach resort? It is an example of

a.    Control Question

b.    Irrelevant Question

c.    Relevant Question

d.   Leading Question

386.  He developed the systolic blood pressure method for detecting deception.

a.    William Marston

b.    Harold Burtt

c.    John Larson

d.    Leonard Keeler

387.  He noted that respiratory and systolic blood pressure changes were signs of deception.

a.    William Marston

b.    Harold Burtt

c.    Leonard Keeler

d.    John Larson

388.  An Italian Scientist who used hydrosphygmograph procedure for persons charged with the commission of a crime.

a.    Angelo Mosso

b.    Veraguth

c.    Lombroso

d     Vittorio Benussi

389.  Pioneer who first used the term psycho galvanic skin reflex.

a.   Angelo Mosso

b.    Veraguth

c.   Lombroso

d.    Vittorio Benussi

390.  Who first incorporated the galvanograph with measurement, respiration component and blood pressure?

a.    Harold Burtt

b.    Hans Gross

c.    Leonarde Keeler

d.    John Larson

391.  A primitive practice of detecting deception whereby controversies are settled by means of duel, the victor will be spared from consequences and the loser will be pronounce guilty.

a.    Ordeal

b.   Trial by Combat

c.    Combat

d.    None of these

392.  It is an instrument used for the recording of changes in blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration, and skin resistance as indication of emotional disturbances especially when questioned.

a.    Polygraphy

b.    Polygraph

c.   Lie detector machine

d.    B & C

393.  It is a scientific method of detecting deception using polygraph.

a     Polygraphy

b.    Lie Detection

c.    B & A

d.    None of the foregoing

394.  It is an emotional response to specific danger that appears to beyond a person’s defensive power.

a.    Stimulus

b.    Fear

c.    Reaction

d.    Detection

395.  It is   a force or motion reaching the organism and excites the receptors.

a.    Stimulus

b.    Recation

c.    Deception

d.    Detection

396.  It is used to measure the blood pressure and heart rate of the subject in the polygraph examination.

a.   Pneumnograph

b.    Galvanograph

c.    Kymograph

d.    Cardio-Sphymograph

397   The component of the Polygraph machine that records the subject’s respiratory rate.

a.    Pneumograph

b.    Galvanograph

c.    Kymograph

d.    Cardio-Sphymograph

398.  This component of the Polygraph machine records the amount of perspiration produced.

a.    Pneumograph

b.   Galvanograph

c.    Kymograph

d.   Cardio-Sphymograph

399.  Questions formulated must be short, simple and direct answerable by either ‘yes” or no” only, phrased in the language easily understood by the subject.

a.    True

b.    False

c.    Partially True

d.    Partially False

400.  These are questions which have no bearing to the case under investigation.

a.    Relevant Question

b.    Irrelevant Question

c.    Control Question

d.    Uncontrollable Questions

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