Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyewitness Testimony, Albert Horsley, Eyewitness Memory

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

Document Summary

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 vs what was heard. Sometimes we can have a false memory: varendonck provided expert testimony in 1911, children can provide inaccurate testimony due to suggestive questioning techniques. Forensic psychology in north america: the legal profession did(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)a(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)el(cid:272)o(cid:373)e the field of ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:449)ith ope(cid:374) ar(cid:373)s, espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) i(cid:374) Jenkins v. united states (1962: court rules some psychologists are qualified to give expert testimony on the issue of mental disease. Jury instructed to disregard initial testimony: reversed on appeal with reference to apa report, helped to increase the extent to which psychologists can contribute to legal proceedings. Similar contributions to eyewitness testimony and jury decision making: research and advances in corrections, constructing better risk assessment tools and developing effective treatment approaches, canadian courts lower to recognize psychologists, partially explained by different licensing standards.