PSYC 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Expert Witness, Kenneth And Mamie Clark, A Confession

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Abfp (narrow): clinical, counseling, neuro. , and school psychology plus providing professional expertise to the judicial system. Bartol and bartol (broad): the research endeavor that examines aspects of human behavior directly related to the legal process and/or the professional practice of psychology within, or in consultation with, a legal system that embraces civil and criminal law. Psychology in the law: use of psychology in the legal system as that system operates, example psychologist providing expert testimony. Psychology research nomothetic (broad/general trends) experiments strict/cautious descriptive (how ppl. behave) multiple (alt. explanations) restrictive. Law precedents, logic, case law idiographic (case-by- case basis) adversarial (argumentative) lenient prescriptive (how ppl. should behave) single explanation less restrictive. Stern and liszt (1901: emotional arousal can have a negative impact on the accuracy of a person"s testimony, low internal validity. Schrenck-notzing (1896: testified that the extensive pretrial press coverage could influence the testimony of people by causing retroactive memory falsification (what we see vs. what"s reported)

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