Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Albert Horsley, Expert Witness, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Identify some of the major milestones in the history of forensic psychology. James cattell (columbia, ny)= founded the psychology of eyewitness testimony: measurements of the accoract of recollection paper = asked 56 students to recall things they had witnessed in everyday life. Found that students recollections were often inaccurate & they were too confident that their memory was correct. Alfred binet la suggestibilit = presented numerous studies in which he showed that testimony provided by children was highly susceptible to suggestive questioning techniques. Presented children with a variety of objects & they were asked to answer questionings after the activity. Free recall techniques were the most accurate answers: william stern = credited for the (cid:862)realit(cid:455) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) used to study recall and recognition. Participants are exposed to a staged event & are then questioned about the event. Ex// participants in a law class saw people arguing & one person pulled out a revolver.