Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pediatrics, Falsifiability, Marion Merrell Dow
22 Mar 2016
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Chapter 1 an introducion to forensic psychology. Forensic psychology = a ield of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system. The way in which the media portrays forensic psychology is usually inaccurate. Forensic psychologists are interested in understanding how people funcion within a legal context. James catell of columbia university conducted experiments looking at the psychology of eyewitness tesimony. Study: measurements of the accuracy of recollecion - asked 56 college students to recall things they had witnessed in everyday lives. Catell found that students" answers were oten inaccurate, and that the relaionship between paricipants" accuracy and conidence was far from perfect. Alfred binet - presented studies that showed that the tesimony provided by children was highly suscepible to suggesive quesioning techniques. Binet presented children with a series of objects for a short period of ime.
