PSYCH 3CC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Forensic Psychology, Hypnosis, Suggestibility
23 Jan 2019
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Forensic psychology: a field of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behaviour as it relates to the law legal system: media portrayals are in accurate. Like all psychologists, forensic psychologists are interested in understanding the mechanisms that underlie peoples thoughts, feelings and actions. Forensic psychologists get involved in activities that other psychologists rarely do, because they are interested in understanding how people function within a very particular context - a legal one. Forensic psychology has a relatively short history, dating back roughly to the late 19th c. Advocates for forensic psychology in north america: 1900s, hugo munsterberg, discussed how psychology could assist with issues involving eyewitness testimony, crime detection, false confessions, suggestibility, hypnotism, and even crime prevention. In the early to mid 1900s psychologists in the us began to be more heavily involved in the judicial system as expert witnesses.
