Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intellectual Disability, Albert Horsley, Forensic Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Lecture 2 - history and challenges of forensic psychology. Early research in forensic psychology: 1895: cattel: the accuracy of everyday observations, binet: suggestibility in children. The misinformation effect: wording of a question can create misinformation: this can manipulate and later our memory, accident video - in class example. Modern cognitive: elizabeth loftus: memory and factors that can distort it, misinformation effect. In what direction do the seeds of an apple point: key finding was not only that the students were inaccurate but they were often quite confident in their answers despite the inaccuracy. Studies showed that the testimony provided by children was highly susceptible to suggestive questioning techniques: they actually incorporated it into his memory. Stern: 1910: the eyewitness "reality experiment, commonly used to this day to try and measure the accuracy of eyewitness memory, used staged argument/confrontation between two student in his law class as one of the first "reality experiments"