PSY328H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
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Amicus brief idea: this class: ch1, next class: ch5 + lec2 readings. Professor and ta office hours and email on the slides. Research specialist program --> see slides on blackboard. Human behaviour is at the heart of psych and the law. This is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes in an attempt to understand, predict, and control human behaviour. Dep variable is almost always a human variable in resp to something. Pure common law today is based on case law - what happened before: civil law exists elsewhere that strives to be more equal. Legal system comprised of body of laws, rules, regulations, procedures. Relationship between human behaviour and the law, the legal system, and the legal process. Empirical study of the assumptions about human behaviour that underlie the operation and the functioning of the law. This is what we do normally in science anyway.
