Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demonic Possession, Psych, Yield Sign

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Psych plays roles in both research and practice of law. Psychologists can serve as expert witnesses in legal cases. Reconstructive memory: process by which memories for an event are distorted by information that becomes available to a person after the event: can be used to misle eyewitnesses. 32: yield sign lead on, saw yield sign, not a stop sign , stressful experience us military subjects under heroin training exercise to train if they are ever captured as pow! Aggressive, hostile interviews for 30 mins and they have to id the interrogator, and feeding suggestive = misid, choose someone who doesn"t even remotely look like the perp: misinformation is everywhere, if we talk to other witnesses too! Psychotherapy lady thinking she was forced into preggo and baby was cut from belly, but no physical scars. *imagination, dream interpretation, hypnosis, exposure to false information. Planted a memory, lost in a mall as a kid but saved by elderly person.