PSYCH230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emotional Bias, Cognitive Psychology, Psychopathy
12 Sep 2013
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Psych 230 psychology and law. In cognitive experiments, you watch brief flashes of information, below the level of awareness. Cognitive reaction time: how fast do you recognize something. Systematic observation with systematic coding system. Use scales to measure individual differences. Impossible to treat and does not care about anyone else. Understand people in relationship, how do people behave in the presence of others. Humans are intensive social beings to develop the legal system we have. Experimental method used all the time. Correlation methods: use questionnaire, surveys. Because you can"t get everyone to get into different situations. Human behaviours are too complicated to understand. Minimize possibility of the likelihood of incorrect and bias explanations. Designs study to eliminate alternate incorrect explanations. During therapy sessions with young offenders, dr. lawless correlates traumatic childhood relationships to criminals and criminal offence. Negative parental rejections can relate to criminal offence.
