PSYC 372 Lecture 9: psych and law exam 1 part 1
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This guide gives you tips on what material i expect you to know for the exams. Science vs. law as source of decisions. Innovative thinking (science/pushing in new direction) vs. stare decisis (looking at past) Law is more proscriptive, where psychology is more descriptive. Stare decisis: let the de(cid:272)isio(cid:374) sta(cid:374)d use pre(cid:448)ious de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s i(cid:374) order to help (cid:373)ake a (cid:374)e(cid:449) o(cid:374)e. Under stare decisis, once a court has answered a question, the same question in other cases must elicit the same response from the same court or lower courts in that jurisdiction. Forensic psychology: the use of psychological knowledge/research methods to advise, evaluate, or reform the legal system. Back in the day was a clinical psychologist who worked in the courts a social psychologist could not be a forensic psychologist. Now, all psychologists who does anything involved in the courts can be labeled forensic psychologists. Brandeis brief: a legal argumentative document submitted by louis brandeis to the.