PSYC 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Wehner, Hypnosis, Pay Attention
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Week 1: psychology and law: a cautious alliance, interrogations & confessions. Application of methods, theories & concepts of psychology to a wide variety of topics within the legal system. Analyze, compare, identify & interpret physical evidence (e. g. , dna always, fingerprints, bite mark analysis, blood type) Link physical evidence to the suspect, victim & crime scene. Don"t do dna analyses, but compare data. 1843: daniel m"naughten found not guilty by reason of insanity. 1896: psychologist albert von schrenck-notzing testified about pretrial publicity. 1908: hugo munsterberg"s on the witness stand is published (anticipated much of what the field is focused on today) 1913: 1st use of a psychologist in a u. s. correctional setting recorded in new york at a women"s reformatory. Main job of psychologists at this time was to determine if a person was. 1917: louis terman used iq testing for law enforcement personnel screening. 1922: william marston (a student of munsterberg) appointed first professor of legal psychology in the u. s.
