PSYCH 3CC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1+: Confabulation, Cerebral Cortex, Polygraph
8 Sep 2017
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Chapter 3 the psychology of police investigations. In some countries, people in may be convicted solely based on their confessions. Investigator bias: occurs during actual interrogation, when police begin interrogation, they believe suspect to be guilty, often unknowingly seek out and interpret info that verifies their initial belief. Alternative to the reid model: an alternative to the reid model, england and wales have gone through changes to reduce oppressive interrogation practices, peace model, primary goal to obtain complete and accurate info about the crime. Peace model: officers still use close ended questions even though evidence suggests more info can be obtained through open ended questions where the interviewee does most of the talking. Studying false confessions in the lab: no ethics committee would allow participants to be led to believe they had committed awful crimes, confabulation: participants make up details to match confession. Consequences of falsely confessing: problem for both the innocent person and police agencies, false conviction.
