Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Insanity Defense, Offender Profiling, America West Airlines

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: K.Mkowen

Document Summary

Wundt in germany cattell conducted expirements looking at what would later be called the psychology of eyewitness testimony. 1892: 1906 case concerning a young intellectually disabled man from chicago (richard ivens) In response to this he published his book on the witness stand. In the book he argues that psych has much to ffer to legal system. Could assist in eyewitness testimony, crime detection, false confessions, suggestibility, hypnotism and even crime prevention: lead to even more criticism from legal profession, john henry wimore, well respected law professor at. Growing number of high quality textbooks in the area provide the opportunity to teach students about forensic psych: 2. Numerous academic journals are not dedicated to various aspects of the field; more mainstream psych journals publish research from the forensic domain at a reg rate- speaks to large number of psychs conducting research: 3.