PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Mckeen Cattell, Whitechapel Murders, Lewis Terman
21 Apr 2020
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Anthropology: victim identification from bones, facial reconstruction. Engineering: accident reconstruction, fire & explosion analysis. 1842 edgar allen poe: murders in the rue morgue . 1887 sherlock holmes: a study in scarlet . 1895 james mckeen cattell: provides first offender profile in london"s whitechapel murders case. In us, cattell conducts research on memory accuracy. 1896 albert von schrenk-notzing: testified about effects of pretrial publicity on witness recall, people"s memory can be contaminated based on the stuff that they see & trials. 1901 william stern: conducted research on eyewitness testimony and leading questions, leading question presupposes a leading factor, negative impact of leading question is important in the early stage when police are questioning witnesses. 1908 hugo munsterberg: published on the witness stand . 1916 lewis terman: his stanford-binet iq test used to assess police/fire applicants in california. In frye vs unites states, he provided expert testimony re polygraph results.
