Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Offender Profiling, Intellectual Disability, Falsifiability

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

Document Summary

Harder than it looks on tv: history and challenges of forensic. Review of first day: cattell (1895, accuracy of everyday observation, psychology of eyewitness testimony. (cid:862)what was the weather like 1 week ago today? (cid:863) Ex. law student as eyewitnesses purse stealing incident video. The misinformation effect: wording of a question can create misinformation by manipulating or altering our memory. Modern cognitive: elizabeth loflus, memory and factors that can distort it, such as the misinformation effect, even changing just one word. Ex. colliding vs. smashing and reports on how fast were going: its impact on eyewitness memory and testimony, her work has changed how police use line ups and handle eyewitnesses, and how court uses eyewitness testimony. Europe: von schrenck-notzing (1896, pre-trial press can result in retroactive memory falsification (what as observed vs what was heard, varendonck (1911, children can provide inaccurate testimony due to suggestive questioning techniques.