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Four Phases of Polygraph

The document outlines four phases of a polygraph examination: [1] The examination room should be quiet, private, and distraction-free. [2] General considerations include obtaining background details on the case from investigating officers and informing the subject about the nature and purpose of the test. [3] The subject is told the instrument can determine if they are telling the truth and it will not cause physical pain. [4] Telling a truthful subject the instrument will show they are being truthful relieves their tension while offering no relief to liars.

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Four Phases of Polygraph

The document outlines four phases of a polygraph examination: [1] The examination room should be quiet, private, and distraction-free. [2] General considerations include obtaining background details on the case from investigating officers and informing the subject about the nature and purpose of the test. [3] The subject is told the instrument can determine if they are telling the truth and it will not cause physical pain. [4] Telling a truthful subject the instrument will show they are being truthful relieves their tension while offering no relief to liars.

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FOUR PHASES OF POLYGRAPH

A. THE EXAMINATION ROOM.

• 1. Lie - detector test should be conducted in a quiet


private room.
• 2. Select a room with none of the usual police
surroundings and with no distraction within the
subjects view.
• 3. Select a room without any windows at all.
• 4. The interrogation room should contain no
ornaments, pictures or other object which would
distract the attention of the personbeing tested or
interviewed
• 5. This suggestion refers to the presence within the
subject's reach of small loose object such as
papers,clips or pencils thet he may be inclinedto pick
up and further distract during the course of the
interrogation.
• (EFFECT) - Tension relieving activities of this sort
detract from the effectiveness of the interoggation ,
especially during the critical phase when a guilty
subject may be trying desperately to suppress an
urge to confess.
• 6. Strange noise such a ringing of a telephone
or the conversation of persons outside the
examination room, of the presence of the
arresting officers or other spectators in the
room itself, may produce disturbances and
distractions which will interfere with a
satisfactory diagnosis of deception.
B. GENERAL CONSIDERATION

• 1. In order to conduct a satisfactory lie-detector test, kit is advisable


for the examiner to obtain from the
• 2. This will include, of course , the details of the case itself. Such
information is essential to the examiner so that he will be in a
position to know questions should be asked of the subject during
the test.
• 3. The subject who is about to be tested should be informed of the
nature of the test and purpose of it. The intruments should be
pointed out to him as one which is capable of determinging whether
or not a person is telling the truth about a given matter.He should be
informed that is records certain bodily changes and that the
instrument will not cause any ohysical pain except for a slight
temporary discomfort occasioned by the blood pressure cuff.
• 4. The writer made it a practice , at this point in the
proceeding to tell to the subject some what as follows . “If
you are telling the truth you have nothing tonworry about,
this instruments will indicate you are telling the truth, and I'll
report the fact to the officer who requested me to make the
test.
• 5. Experienced has indicated that such statement tends to
relieventhe emotional tensions in a person who is telling the
truth , and at the same time they offer no relief to the liar.
Moreoverm', the asking of as regarding the subject 's
consent has proved worthwhile in those cases where the
criminal confessions are obtained asa result of the test.

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