[PSY 300] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (48 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes in an attempt to understand, predict, and in some cases control human behaviour. The legal system is comprised of a body of laws, rules, regulations, and procedures. The legal system is designed to govern, regulate and control human behaviour. The relationship between human behaviour and the law, the legal system, and the legal process. Empirical study of the assumptions about human behaviour that under line the operations. Were looking at the: the reasonableness and validity of the evidence. Psychology of the law study of law itself. Psychology and the law is when psych is used to critically evaluate assumptions being made in law. Phycology in the law- explicit and conventional use of psych in the operation of law. Used as a toold, you don"t need to be there to administer it, you can train someone to do it.