SOC 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Eyewitness Memory, Forensic Psychology, Belief Perseverance
1 Dec 2016
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Forensic science is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences and technologies to investigate and establish facts of interest in relation to criminal or civil law. Scientific study of behaviour and mental processes in an attempt to understand, predict and in some cases control human behaviour. Psychological /research based study of law itself. A look at history/things going on right now. Psychology is used to critically evaluate the assumptions made in law by using forensic methods. Explicit and conventional use of psychology using in the operation of law. At the early stages of an investigation, eyewitnesses to those crimes provide important information to the police. Our brains do not objectively record data. Old information has more influence than new. Eyewitness testimony is often included in trials as direct evidence like fingerprints or. Dna, but it"s obvious (to psychologists) that it"s not as good. A procedure used to identify suspects by an eyewitness.
