PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Memory, Eyewitness Identification

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3030
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Interactions between psychology and the law existed since the middle 19th century and can be traced back to the writings of early greek philosophers. Today, psychologists have extensive contacts with the courts and other legal insitutiions. Justice is a human product means that the accused person has been found guilty or not guilty of breaking the law, and if guilty, a decision is made how he or she is to be treated. Clinical psychology is assumed to be the oldest area of applied psychology, but eyewitness identification and testimony were the first to be applied in the late 19th century and early 20th. The importance of eyewitness identification can be traced back to e. henke in 1838. Error-free recollection is not the rule but the exception: professor von liszt was one of the first legal scholars to perform drama or reality experiments. Refers to the systematic study of behaviour public, observable, private, and internal mental activity.