: PSYC39 LECTURE NOTES
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Applied psychology > insights, apply them to understand the legal system. How the human brain behaves to the law and its psychology behind it. Because we use empirical methods, mechanisms, steps, collecting data snd replicate the findings. Some people think it is the study of people, however it is true but not fully as we explore all types of field and broad. There is both narrow definition and broader definitions. James cattle found that students weren"t so accurate about the recalling of their daily lives. Father of psychology >first person to use psychology to understand people and how they think. He was working with james cattle he tried to vouch for a man who he thought wasn"t at fault of murder but no one took him or psychologist serious at that time. Theories of crime biological theories constitutional theory, idea was that they have temperament, different temperament means different results for crimes and different body types.
