PSY328H5 Lecture Notes - Precedent, Nomothetic, Criminal Negligence
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Trying to figure out why people do the things they do. Differences between law (left) and psychology (right: legal precedent stare decisis doing what is done before or using what was done before to. Use consistent and supporting data to confirm validity and reliability of our findings through well controlled studies empirical. Come up with supportable theories rather than laws: sometimes the truth isn"t actually what truly happened (sometimes subjective), some able to argue better than others adversarial. Trying to describe the situation and how people will behave based on prediction - descriptive: looks on case-by-case basis and decides based on facts for that specific case every case is different idiographic. Based on averages, general principles nomothetic: based on all or nothing verdict system guilty or innocent certainty, changes based on an event that has happened (ex: security was increased dramatically after. Not all or nothing can have percentages probalistic.
