每日一练：职称英语考试理工类每日一练(2018/11/27)
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Why Would TheyFalsely Confess?
Why on earth would an innocentperson falsely confess to committing a crime? To mostpeople, it just doesn'tseem logical. But it is logical, say expels, if you understand what Callhappenin a police interrogation (审讯) room. Under the rightconditions, people's minds aresusceptible (易受影响的) toinfluence, and the pressure put on suspects during policegrillings (盘问) is enormous. (46)__________ "The pressure is important tounderstand, becauseotherwise it's impossible to understand why someone wouldsay he did something he didn't do.The answer is: to put an end to anuncomfortable situation that will continue until he doesconfess. "Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratorydeterminehow likely people are to confess to things they didn't do.(47)__________ The researchers thenintentionally crashed the computers andaccused the participants of hitting the "alt" key to see ifthey wouldsign a statement falsely taking responsibility.
Redlich's findings clearlydemonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess:59 percent ofthe young adults in the experiment immediately confessed.(48)__________ Of the15-to 16-year-olds,72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the12-to 13-year-olds."There's no question that young people are more atrisk," says Saul Kassin, Professor atWilliams College, who has donesimilar studies with similar results. (49)__________ a psychologyBoth Kassinand Redlich note that the entire "interrogation" in their experimentsconsisted of asimple accusation -- not hours of aggressive questioning -- andstill, most participants falselyconfessed.
Because of the stress of apolice interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falselyconfessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.(50)__________
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."In some ways,"says Kassin, "false confession becomes a rational decision. "
C."It's a little likesomebody's working on them with a dental (牙齿的)drill," says Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley.
D."But adults are highlyvulnerable too. "
E.How could an innocent personadmit to doing something he didn't do?
F.Redlich also found that theyounger the participant, the more likely a false confession.
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