Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Serial Killer, Personnel Selection, Falsifiability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Mc Keown

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Landmark us court cases: early research in forensic psychology, early court cases in europe, progress in canada, a legitimate field of psychology. Early court cases in europe: von schrenck-notzing testified as an expert in 1896, pre-trial press can result in retroactive memory falsification (what was observed versus what was heard) "memories" can be based on stories or picture you have seen/heard, not actually true: varendonck provided expert testimony in 1911, children can provide inaccurate testimony due to suggestive questioning techniques. Forensic psychology in north america: the legal professio(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)actl(cid:455) welco(cid:373)e the field of ps(cid:455)cholog(cid:455) with ope(cid:374) ar(cid:373)s, especiall(cid:455) i(cid:374) north america. In early 1900s contributed to 2 high profile cases: 1: the case of richard ivens 91906). Young intellectually disabled man confessed to raping and murdering a woman. Orchard confessed to killing a former governor and several others but on the orders of a union boss.