PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Health Law, Legal Psychology, Psychology Today
30 Jan 2017
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Forensic psychology: a eld of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system. Interested in the mechanisms that underline people"s thoughts, feelings and actions. Interested how people function within a legal context. Some of the rst experiments were in the usa and europe. James cattell preformed some of the rst experiments. Found the relationship between accuracy and con dence was far from perfect. Free recall (1993) was found to produce the most accurate answers. Highly misleading questions lead to least accurate answers. Emotional arousal can have a negative impact on accuracy of testimony (seeing guns) Retroactive memory falsi cation: confuse actual memories of events with events described by the media. Hugo munsterberg is often known as the father of forensic psychology. First time there was an expert witness was in state v. driver 1921.
