Are you supposed to keep the base line breathing and basically keep your cool when answering relevant questions? Then when the polygrapher asks a control question you use a different breathing pattern along with another CM??? Is it that simple, or is there more to it???? 

How would I answer thease questions, they are in the manual. Do I answer all the questions truthfully and employ CM's??? Or answer one of them with a "no" and then employ a CM (s) and then answer "yes" to the rest with no CM?

• Have you ever lied to a loved one? 
• Have you ever taken something that does not belong to you?” 
• Since the age of 18, have you ever considered hitting someone in anger

George,
As to the control questions that are listed if you answer yes to one of them would you fail? I can't believe that an examiner would think that you have never lied to a loved one? Or have you ever taken anything that has not belonged to u?Seems unrealistic,then again the exam itself is too.

anxietyguy wrote on Apr 27^th, 2004 at 9:29pm:


Anxiety,

Of course everyone has told a fib to a loved one.   

After this is discussed in the pre-exam interview, and you have admitted to some youthful indiscretions, the examiner will simply re-word the question to "Other than what we have discussed, have you ever lied to a loved one?" Or, "Other than what you told me, have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?"  They are still a control questions,  and yes, they still require a reaction.  The examiner is fully expecting you to lie on these types of questions.   

Kona