PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confirmation Bias, Reid Technique

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Incongruent situations, you can run into problems in how you interview, the types of procedures and techniques you use. To be a good investigator you have to gain accurate information. You have to be biased, if you come in thinking the person is guilty you"re going to look for a confession, you can"t have any pre assumptions. These biases will shape the interview process, will remove some of that empathy, patience, capacity to observe. Goals for the interview: a general principle is the idea that if you have certain expectations, goals or visions of what you"re hoping or expecting to find that will shape how you conduct an interview. This will play itself out in a number of different ways. You"re going to act in way that will confirm that bias. If you are expecting something you"re going to try and gather information that confirms your expectations rather than looking for information that disconfirms it.