PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jargon, Genetic Testing, Eyewitness Testimony

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

Document Summary

Research results are common sense: you"re not telling us anything we didn"t already know. Not everything we discover is common sense, sometimes counterintuitive evidence. Hindsight bias is a factor in a lot of things, but it makes sense, we understand why we do this. Overly influential: it invades the province of the jury, changes what the listeners might think, you have a scientific aura of credibility. In the research that"s been done, many people who hear expert testimony come away from it better informed, educated, better able to do what they"ve come to do. Unrealistic studies: this happens when people really don"t want to believe the results, they say the study is unrealistic when it"s a result they really don"t like. However this is a perfectly good criticism for a lot of valid thing. Sometime you replicate studies to see if you get the same results, if you do the psychological process is operative.