PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Bowlby, Institute For Juvenile Research, Lie Detection
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Issues arising out of the relationship between human behaviour and the law, legal system, and legal processes. Used to examine and understand assumptions made by law or legal system. Legal systems assume that racial profiling is effective. Legal systems assume eyewitness testimonies are true, psychology examines and studies. Psychology used in the system as that system currently operates. Bringing in expert to make a decision as it operates bringing in to decide whether person is insane . Psychology nomothetic (processes at a group level, broad patterns, trends, experiments and statistical methods) Psychology experiments uncover truth through experimentation, assume we can uncover truth through these controlled experiments. Law adversarial uncover truth through adversarial legal system, prosecution and defense truth is dependent on which side presents the better evidence subjective. Psychology multiple several explanations can describe a single occurrence. Law single try to convince judge and jury that their explanation is the sole explanation.
