[PSYC 268] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (29 pages long)

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The task of defining forensic psychology is difficult partly because forensic psychologists have such varied backgrounds and areas of specialty. Definitions of forensic psychology can be broad, encompassing the various roles of expertise of its members while others are quite narrow, focusing on a particular role played by psychologists. Professor jack brigham"s (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)(cid:891) presidential address to the american director of harvard"s psychological laboratory. Psychology and law society posited that the difficulty we have defining forensic psychology stems, in part, from the clinical/nonclinical (or clinical/experimental) distinction. In the balance of the study units you will learn about clinical and experimental forensic psychology research. We can trace back the study of forensic psychology to hugo m nsterberg, the called on the witness stand: essays on psychology and crime, which discussed the various ways that psychology could inform law. Although the book was scathingly critiqued by john wigmore in 1909, it clearly presaged the very issues forensic psychologists study today.

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