PSYC2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Applied Psychology, Decision-Making, Psychopathy
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New approach/view to learning - testing as a learning tools rather than just an assessment of stuff learnt. Testing helps you identify what you don"t know. When information is recalled, we often recall related material too. In the us, over 70% of incorrect convictions were people of colour. The leading factor of wrongful conviction is eyewitness misidentification. Fraud (1906) - suggested unconscious processes are important to consider. Munsterberg (1908) - published on the witness stand, huge amount of push back from legal community, and psychologists also pushed back due to not considering applications but rather clinical study. Tried to show that psychology does have applications in law. Wigmore (1909) - re-published munsterberg"s work, and put him on the stand for basically defamation (satire). Father of applied psychology - context of things happening in the real world. Began applied psychology to the law in 1906.
