UMBAR, SHALIMAR B.

FORENSIC 5 2/21/23

3RD YEAR COLLEGE

BS – CRIMINOLOGY

PERFORMANCE TASK 4

Answer the following questions

Describe the applications of polygraph testing in criminal investigation,

employment and security screening and in the clinical testing

1. Enumerate the responsibilities of the examiner to a tests subject?

 Never conduct examination on person without first the appraisal of subject/s

constitutional rights and the right to self-incrimination

He must/should:

 Be knowledgeable about the polygraph so that he can talk openly and freely

the person about the test

 Not to divulge details of an offense, this may be utilized in application of a

"peak of tension" test

 Stress the test capacity for indicating through the recorded response whether

a person is telling the truth

 Avoid any claim for the instrument or examiner that is not backed up by fact

2. Enumerate the responsibilities of the investigator to the examiner.

 He must/should:

 not depend on the mass screening of possible suspects to produce the guilty

party except when no reasonable amount of investigation had produced a

likely or possible suspect

 not ask the test to bolster the evidence submitted to the court

 not tell anyone that the polygraph would decide whether the subject is

innocent or guilty

3. Define and describe the classifications of clinical testing

Clinical classifications are standardised groupings of information that

translate the clinical terminology describing a patient's condition and treatment

recorded in individual patient records into codes that can be easily tabulated,

aggregated, and sorted for statistical analysis in an efficient and meaningful

manner.