PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Polygraph, Tenser, Suggestibility

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

If the investigator thinks a person is guilty, the investigator may psychologically beat them down: the person may think there is be no other option. False confessions: accounts for the most wrongful convictions. Confessions: admission of guilt is the most damning piece of evidence, if you ever get into a situation like this, you need to get a lawyer. Suggestibility scale: tester reads you a paragraph and then you do a filler task and then you are asked 20 questions, 15 of the 20 questions are misleading, looking for two different things. If you will follow the misleading information: you are lead down a path with the paragraph and what you are told mixes and dilutes your memory. Is when a person actually intends to deceive another. What is deception: to foster another belief of understanding which the deceiver considers to be false.