RC Drill Set 4, Question 5
This passage is adapted from a book published(425 more words not shown)
It can most reasonably be(20 more words not shown)
- Aoften causes witnesses(3 more words not shown)
- Busually disguises the(7 more words not shown)
- Cis often consciously(6 more words not shown)
- Doften causes jurors(3 more words not shown)
- Esometimes makes jurors(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Brakel treats the fuller range of live cues as an advantage. His critics challenge that assumption: a juror can receive more information and still make a less reliable judgment. My expectation is an answer about cues misleading the jury, rather than automatically revealing who is honest.
Working the answers
- A
The concern is how jurors interpret witnesses, not that the cues make witnesses contradict themselves.
- B
The discussion doesn't establish that cues usually hide evidence of perjury. It allows misleading signals without claiming that this happens in most cases or always conceals an actual lie.
- C
Witnesses needn't consciously exploit the cues for the problem to arise. The text describes innocent anxiety that can be misread, not a pattern of deliberate manipulation.
- D
Overload and stereotyping aren't the same as complacency. We aren't told that jurors become satisfied and stop worrying about accuracy.
- ECorrect
Anxiety about a suspicious audience can look like the familiar cues associated with lying (paragraph 3). A witness may be nervous because testifying is intimidating, even while telling the truth. A juror who mistakes that nervousness for dishonesty would make exactly the error described here.
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