Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ovarian Cancer, Suggestibility, Sigmund Exner

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Peter Hoaken

Document Summary

Harder than it looks on tv: history & challenges of forensic psychology. Believed that criminals acted the way they did because of their parents. Thought that people with prominent foreheads and ears were more likely to engage in criminal behaviour. Hired grace fernand: advocated that a lot of kids were acting criminally not because of his genes but because of his environment (parents, peers, school) Castration was not used on children anymore because of her work. Interested in how personality theory related to crime. Psychoanalysis had potential when it came to reducing crime rate. Pretends to be shot, jumps to his feet and asks his class to describe the shooter. People focus on the weapon and not the actual person. Went south when he started offering services as an expert witness. Munsterburg interviewed orchard, testifies that orchard"s confession was true, he was. Harry orchard trial: bomb, confessed convicted and spent his whole life in jail.