Experimental validation of polygraph test to identify the way a person obtains the first information about the event

Introduction. Due to the high importance of solving practical tasks aimed at identifying a person’s awareness about a crime, it becomes relevant to determine the circumstances in which a person received the first information about the event of crime. A person’s awareness is understood as a component of his/her experience, and research with the use of polygraph - as a method of psychological diagnostics of a person’s individual experience. The authors propose the structure of stimuli ("polygraph tests"), which makes it possible to reveal the circumstances (time, place, source, method) of obtaining by a person the first information about the occurred event, and carry out the procedure of pragmatic validation of these tests.