PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Quasi, Social Desirability Bias, Sigmund Freud
11 Oct 2012
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Topic: introduction to psychology and law chapter one. The law touches different aspects of your life in terms of your interactions at work and school. You notice the law when punishment takes place. Look in the newspapers and you can see the law at work. First newspaper shown on ppt good publicity bad strategy. Maclean harper wants to be touch while others feel his ideas are not fair. Courts cannot change the laws they can only dictate whether or not they are constitutional. Law body of rules of conduct prescribed by authority that has binding force. Psychology looks at the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes to understand, to predict, to control (how individuals think, interact and influence each other). Focus on behaviour forms linkage between the two. Anything within the intersection of the law and psychology. Forensic psychology is reflected in any application of psychological knowledge or methods to a task faced by the legal system.
