PrepTest 150, Section 1, Question 7
When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers(453 more words not shown)
According to the passage, each(11 more words not shown)
- AIt requires less(5 more words not shown)
- BStudies have shown(10 more words not shown)
- CIt does not(8 more words not shown)
- DIt may give(6 more words not shown)
- EIt is common(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Keep the two techniques separate. Eye closure gets the favorable results in the final paragraph. False confidence appears earlier as a problem with hypnosis. Because this is an EXCEPT question, four choices should match the account of eye closure; we're looking for the one that doesn't.
Working the answers
- A
The cognitive interview requires “substantial training,” while eye closure requires “no specialist training.” That supports the comparison, so A isn't the exception.
- B
The final paragraph explicitly includes benefits for “events witnessed on video.” This is one of the settings in which the technique was studied.
- C
The benefits are achieved “with no increase in errors.” That's exactly the favorable result we need to keep separate from hypnosis's reliability problems.
- DCorrect
The writer attributes the “false confidence” effect to hypnosis, not instructed eye closure. Moving that problem to a different technique doesn't make it a supported description of eye closure. We don't need to prove that eye closure could never produce false confidence; we only need to recognize which method receives that description here.
- E
The writer explicitly says eye closure is common to both hypnosis and the cognitive interview. Its presence in those larger methods is the starting point for studying the technique on its own.
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