Psychology 2032A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: K. Mc Keown

Document Summary

Includes areas such as social, cognitive, personality, organizational and developmental psychology. Ph. d. in psychology and training in law (ex. Legal scholar: the least common role for forensic psychologists. Interests can include: engage in scholarly analysis of mental health law, policy analysis. What is psychology of crime: using research in clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychology. Early court cases in europe: von schrenck-notzing testified as an expert in 1896, pre-trial press can result in retroactive memory falsification, what was observed vs what was heard. Sometimes we can have a false memory: varendonck provided expert testimony in 1911, children can provide inaccurate testimony due to suggestive questioning techniques. Forensic psychology in north america: the legal profession did(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)a(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)el(cid:272)o(cid:373)e the field of ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:449)ith ope(cid:374) ar(cid:373)s, espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) i(cid:374) Jenkins v. united states (1962: court rules some psychologists are qualified to give expert testimony on the issue of mental disease.