PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eyewitness Identification, Geographic Profiling, Trial
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Test 1 short answers are all from lecture 1! Everything is fair game in the textbook (names, dates, cases, and boxes), but the studies are more important! Forensic psychology: juries, eyewitnesses, court systems, e. g. , judicial cleansing. Juries r amateurs who r told to make decisions: eyewitnesses can"t be trusted, person came in, left, and now we have to pick that person"s face from 6 faces, 60% pick the correct face. Investigative psychology: that"s what its called in the uk, behavioural investigative advising, then ip changed to bia, criminal investigative analysis. We can then advise further based on our estimates of the unknowns. It moves directly from the information available to an estimate of the unknown that would be useful to know. Theorem combines the prior context of the investigative information with the information to obtain a singular estimate. Frequentist approaches, on the other hand, are designed to create or interpret isolated experiments.
