PSYCH230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stress Management, Robert L. Hirsch, Expert Witness
16 Feb 2017
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Forensic psychology: a field of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behavior as it relates to the law or legal system. Emotional arousal can have a negative impact on the accuracy of a person"s testimony. Retroactive memory falsification: where people confuse actual memories of events with the events described by the media. Chromosomal irregularity is linked to criminal behaviour. Normal women have two x chromosomes and men have one x and a y. Men with 2 y chromosomes were more masculine and therefore more aggressive. Merton"s strain theory proposed that crime is largely a product of the strain felt by certain individuals in society, typically the lower class, who have restricted access to legitimate means (ex. education) Sutherland"s differential association theory proposed that criminal behaviour is learned through social interactions in which people are exposed to values that can be either favourable or unfavourable to violations of the law.
