PSYC 3310 Chapter 1: Psyc 3310 Chapter 1
15 Nov 2016
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Canada has a legal system based on the british common law system, except for quebeca, which retains a civil system for issues of private law. Canada follows a legal doctrine of stare decisis, a principle which states that lower courts must follow the decisions of higher courts by which they are bound. Freud gave a speech in which he cautioned austrian judges that their decisions were influenced by unconscious processes. Hugo munsterberg (founder of psychology and law) was an experimental psychologist who published a book entitled on the witness stand: he was a student of wilhelm wundt. Muller v. oregon: ruled that the workday for any woman employed in a laundry or factory should be limited to 10 hours. Brandeis brief a written legal document that argued that working long hours injured the health of mothers, and by extension, the health of their children.
