Belinda Viernes September

12, 2020
Crimtic 5

1. How can you describe the ancient method of detecting deception?

People who were involved in the assessment of credibility looked for accurate detection
methods. Many of the early attempts to detect deception were founded on magic and
mysticism. Actually, all the ancient methods could be classified as trial by either torture,
combat or ordeal. Torture was used to make the presumed guilty person confess his
guilt. In ancient Greece torture was reserved for slaves and for strangers. Free citizens
were not tortured. In Rome, torture was a widespread procedure that spared no one.
The torture of freemen accused of treason or of other crimes against the state became
an admitted principle of Roman law. Torture was used for the investigation of truth, not
as punishment. Therefore, it was used for witnesses as well. When the testimony of
slaves was required, it was necessarily accompanied by torture to confirm it.

2. Explain the scientific method of detecting deception?

The polygraph is the best-known technique for psychophysiological detection of

deception. The goal of all of these techniques is to detect deception by analyzing
signals of changes in the body that cannot normally be detected by human observation.
The physiological phenomena recorded by the polygraph are only a few of the many
physiological phenomena that have been characterized since the polygraph was first
introduced and that might, in principle, yield signals of deception.
The polygraph relies on measurements of autonomic and somatic activity. That is, it
analyzes signals of peripheral physiological activities associated with arousal and
emotion. The traditional measures used in polygraph testing are cardiovascular
electrodermal and respiratory These are among the oldest measures used by
psychophysiologists.