Why Would They Falsely Confess?

Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To mostpeople，it just doesn’t seem logical.But it is logical，say experts。if you understand what call happen in a police interrogation(審訊)room.

Under the right conditions，people’s minds are susceptible(易受影響的)to influence，and the pressure put on suspects during police questioning is enormous. __________ . (46)“The pressure is important to understand，because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn’t do.The answer is：to put all end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess.

Developmental psychologist Mary Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn’t do. __________ . (47)the researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting “alt” key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility.Redlich’s findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed. __________. (48) Of the 15-to 16-year-olds，72 percent signed confessions，as 3-year-olds.

“There’s no question that young people are more at risk，”says Saul Kassin，a psychology professor at Williams College，who has done similar studies with similar . __________ . (49)

Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire ‘‘interrogation” in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation-not hours of aggressive questioning--and still，most participants falsely decision.”

__________ . (50)“In some ways，”says Kassin，“false confession becomes a rational A In her experiment，participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the“alt” key,because doing So would crash the systems.

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 Because of the stress of a police interrogation，they conclude，suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.

C “It’s a little like somebody’s working on them with a dental(牙齒) drill,” says Franklin Zimring，a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

D“But the baseline is that adults are highly vulnerable too.”

E The court found him innocent and he was released.

F Redlich also found that the younger the participant，the more likely a false confession.

答案解析

46.正確答案為C。這一段談的是pressure方面的事，請注意在這個空格后面是一段引言，但沒有原說話人的名字，這也給我們提示，在填入部分里應該有原說話人的名字?？梢钥紤]的B、C、F三個選項， 但從內容上考慮應該選c。

47.正確答案為A。這里填入的部分是對Redlich所做試驗的描述，下文又講到計算機，所以不難選定A。

48.正確答案為F。這一段講的是Redlich試驗的結果，一開始就講了她的finding。填入的部分里有also這個詞，正好接上。而后面的一句話則用更具體的數據來支持她的結論：越年輕，越可能做假供。

49.正確答案為.D。Saul Kassin同意Redlich的結果，她認為年輕人風險大(more at risk)，但同時她又認為成年人也十分脆弱(vulnerable)。

50.正確答案為B。由于在審訊過程中受到的壓力，許多人認為做假供是一種擺脫厄境的方法，因此也是一種合理的決定。

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