PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Lie Detection, Free Recall
15 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Alfred binet la suggestibilite: conducted studies with kids (7-14 years) to examine their susceptibility to suggestive questioning about a button glued on a board, free recall most accurate, children susceptible to leading questions. Sigmund freud (1906: compares judges to psychotherapists, may be ways to uncover the truth. Hugo munsterberg (1908: on the witness stand first book on psych and law, urged lawyers to consider: Jenkins v. united states (1962: apa argued that psychologists are not qualified to provide expert testimony about mental illness, apa argues it"s the knowledge base, not the title, courts rule that psychologists are qualified to testify. Observational analysis: directly observe and analyse behavior as it naturally occurs, advantage: Observe behavior in the real world, not influenced by experimenter. Natural settings, free from artificiality of the lab: disadvantage: Quality and accuracy of data depends on sample. Usually more interested in possible relationships between variables than.
