Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 : Kenneth And Mamie Clark, John Henry Wigmore, Temporal Lobe

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

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Forensic psychologists: pro le serial killers, select jury members & determine one"s sanity. Interested in understanding mechanisms that underlie peoples thoughts, feelings & actions. Testify on matters such as tness to stand trial & criminal responsibility. Research on testimony & suggestibility: james cattell - experiments regarding the psychology of eyewitness testimony. Relationship b/t participants accuracy & con dence was off. Alfred binet - suggestibility; showed testimony from children was highly susceptible to suggestive questioning techniques. Free recall (report everything observed) = most accurate answers. Misleading questions = least accurate answers: william stern - suggestibility; reality experiment - participants exposed to staged events & asked to recall info testimony of participants was often incorrect. Found recall to be worst for portions of the event that were particularly exciting. Emotional arousal can have negative impact on accuracy of persons testimony. Court cases in europe: schrenck-notzing - rst expert witness to provide testimony in court about the effect of pretrial publicity on memory.