An examination of a suspected murderer included an assessment of his reaction to details regarding the victim's clothing and death wounds-details that would be known only to a person at the scene of the crime.The investigators were using
A) subliminal stimulation.
B) the spillover effect.
C) the Concealed Information Test.
D) the Cannon-Bard theory.

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The use of details that only the person at the scene of the crime would know suggests that the investigators were using the Concealed Information Test, which assesses whether a suspect has knowledge of concealed details related to the crime. Subliminal stimulation refers to presenting stimuli below the threshold of conscious awareness, the spillover effect refers to emotional arousal from one stimulus influencing a response to a subsequent stimulus, and the Cannon-Bard theory proposes that emotions and bodily responses occur simultaneously and independently. These theories are not directly relevant to the scenario described.

An Examination of a Suspected Murderer Included an Assessment of His