PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Albert Horsley, Kenneth And Mamie Clark, Forensic Psychology
3 May 2016
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Forensic psychology: a field of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system. Bried history: started late nineteenth century, not referred to as forensic psych. James cattell, (bartol & bartol, 2006) conducted experiments in psychology of eyewinesse testimony: measurements of the accuracy of recollection, asked students questions ( what was the weathe a week ago ). Answers often inaccurate, relationship between answer accuracy and confidence was far from perfect. Court cases in europe psychologists started to appear as experts in court, much to do with accuracy of testimony: albert von schrenck-notzing on of the first to testify in court about the effect of pretrial publicity on memory. Ivens young intellectually disabled man, confessed to rape and murder, munsterberg and. Some wigmore dude made fun of him in a faux trial he wrote on april fools day: because of this little progress was made in psych in law.
