Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eyewitness Testimony, Naturalistic Observation, Recognition Memory

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

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Lecture 5 - criminal profiling and eye witness memory. Criminal profiling: robert ressler, one of the original profilers, started the behavioural science unit at the fbi, many credit him with the term profiling The murderer removed the bite marks on the body, he had guessed teeth marks might give him away: after finding another body ressler revised and compressed his profile. In the end his mind had left him, and became very disorganized: this case shocked robert ressler because it wasn"t one or the other, organized or disorganized. Snook et. al: evaluating the accuracy of criminal profiling. Little research has examined the model, but that which has raised doubts as to is validity: cannot account for offenders who display a mixture of organized and disorganized features. Potential problems with profiling: criminal profiling is often criticized on the following grounds: It lacks strong theoretical base: profilers are too ambiguous to be useful (ex.