PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elizabeth Loftus, Franz Liszt, Forensic Psychology
9 Aug 2018
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The application of psychological knowledge and theories to all aspects of the criminal and civil justice systems, including the processes and the people. Some people (e. g. blackburn, 1996) argue that the term forensic. Psychology should only be used to denote the (cid:498)direct provision of psychological information to the courts, that is, to psychology in the courts(cid:499). However some psychologists have wanted to widen this usage to cover all aspects of psychology that are applied or relevant to the legal process. Experimental forensic psychologists draw on research from a number of fields of psychology to explain and understand some of the processes and people involved in the legal system: history of forensic psychology. Asked people to recall things they witnessed in their everyday life. Alfred binet (1900: binet showed children objects (e. g. , button glued to poster board) and then asked them questions about the object, found that highly misleading questions resulted in poor accuracy.
