PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michelle Remembers, Disorganized Crime, Recognition Memory
12 Apr 2017
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List and explain 3 main criticsims of crimninal profiling that have been identified by researchers. Provide an example to demonstrate the limitation (3 marks: theoretical base problem behaviour is directed by personality only. Internal traits are the only cause of behaviour and ignores sirtuational influence. Organized killer is interrupted, he may leave a disorganized crime scene: ambiguous/unhelpful profiles contain ambiguopus preditctions that can be interpreted in different ways, tunnel vision focus in on one suspect, and it will be the wrong suspect. 20- year old white male, police wont look for a woman. Don"t write paragraphs what is the most commonly used lie detector (polygraph) method in canada. Alfred binet (1900) button glued to a board. Asked questions (freely recall, misleading qs (midly or highly) Once you start leaning to more leading qs, the answers get more accurate (didn"t you see?)
