PSY 3173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Polygraph, Forensic Psychology
23 Jan 2017
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Highlight certain aspects of the profession while ignoring other aspects. Forensic is pertaining to the law, anything related to some sort of investigation or criminal activity. Assessment: most important for everything else you do. Reassessment is also super important (don"t just put it in the file) Excludes psychologists who primarily conduct forensic research, narrow is only people who do the hands on work. Research endeavor and/or a professional practice that examines: Human behaviour in relation to the legal system. Includes areas such as social, cognitive, personality, organizational and developmental psychology. Depends on what province (quebec is a masters for clinical), college of psychologists may require different things. Licensed to make sure you are working within your area. Find new way, what ways can we train them, are there ways to make people better. Phd as well as law degree, someone who looks at both. Relationships between psychology & law **know for midterm**
