To minimize the effects of nervousness during testing, skilled polygraph examiners use a series of multiple choice questions in which one of the answers is correct. An innocent examinee should show the same polygraph response to all the answers, while a guilty person will show an elevated response to the correct answer. This multiple choice format used in polygraph testing is known as the __________ test.
A)guilty knowledge
B)denotative meanings
C)comparative guilt
D)critical incidents

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The correct answer is the "guilty knowledge" test. This test is designed to detect if the examinee has knowledge that only a guilty person could have, by measuring their physiological responses to multiple-choice questions where one of the options is the correct answer related to the crime or incident under investigation.

To Minimize the Effects of Nervousness During Testing, Skilled Polygraph