Psychology 2032A/B Midterm: FORENSIC PSYCH MIDTERM

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Exams - don"t worry about knowing dates: look at cases. 2 primary ways of defining forensic psych: narrow. Highlight certain aspects of the profession while ignoring other aspects. Excludes psychologists who primarily conduct forensic psychology: broad. Human behaviour in relation to the legal system. Areas such as social, cognitive, personality, organizational and developmental. The use of psych to study the operation of the legal system. The use of psychology within the legal system as it currently operates. The use of psych to study the law itself. The practice of forensic psych and the most frequent duty of psychologists is: The psychological assessment of individuals who are involved in one way or another, with the legal system. The most important skills a forensic psych possesses are solid clinical skills: skills like clinical assessment, interviewing, report writing, strong verbal communication skills, case presentation. Harder than it looks on tv: history and challenges of forensic psychology.