PSYO 3224 Lecture 2: History of Forensic Psychology
8 Feb 2017
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The history of the relationship between law and psychology. Law and psychology have some fundamental distinctions that are important. A collection of reasonable people are able to judge the world around them reasonably accurately: problems: Our reality and the perception can be vastly different. If two people watch two different perspectives of a car crash, they will believe that the cause was not the side they attended to: attentional bias. Rights of data: (cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e does(cid:374)"t (cid:448)alue the (cid:396)ights of (cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:271)les a(cid:374)d data, law values the rights of the accused, law values authority, history, etc. It is important in science to replicate and have reliable findings. Data collected and analyzed is all observational. British common law: legal code and set of precedents. About what some judge or group of judges decided regarding a legal principle at some point in history: common law countries are not elected.
