Summary: Psychology, Law, And Criminal Justice

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• 1 Notes powerpoint: Introduction: Information on the course and insights on legal psychology and scientific method

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• How can psychology intervene in the field of law?

  .Psychology can intervene in the field of law in two ways:
  Directly: Because it is a science and, hence, provides scientific evidence
  Indirectly: Because of the methodology (e.g., interviews, interrogations) 

• What is legal pychology?

  . Based on experimental psychology (e.g., perception, memory)
  Applicable in:
  Eyewitness testimony, lie detection, identification, etc.

• WHAT IS forsensic pychology?

  . Based on clinical psychology (e.g., psychopathology)
  Applicable in:
  Risk assessment, recidivism, treatment, etc.

• Karl poppers scientifique method?

  .Falsifiability as a crucial criterion for theories:
  
    1. Confirmation does not count as evidence
    2. Theory should be falsifiable
    3. If Hp. is falsifiable, scientists should accept it

• What are the types of indepent variables?

  Between subjects  = a
  within subjects = b

• How does pychology help the law?

  .Being Fundamental: Provides theoretical information 
  Being Applied: Wants to provide information for real situations (e.g., legal/forensic psychology: practical implications for the field of law

• What is null hypothesis?

  A null hypothesis refers to a hypothesis that states that there is no relationship between two population parameters

• 2 Psychological processes relevant for legal professionals

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• What did gibson first talk about bottom up?

  We use our proir memory we use this to have global view.

• What is the integrative theory of marr 1982?

  
  Marr, 1982: 
  1. Bidimensional Elaboration,
  2. Bidimensional and an half Elaboration,
  3. Tridimensional Elaboration based on prior knowledge
  
  we organise in diffrent phrases.  named above, people when they percieve element they first use bottom up in two phases than by using top down. They compare global stimuli with stimule in prior knowledge.

• Intregative theory Biederman 1987?

  Recognition by components theory
   Biederman, 1987:
  Stimuli organized as GEONI you need both modalities diffrence. He doesnt use phases. The idea is when we percieve we organize pased on compents stimuli = gionnee. We have 36 goinee we can assemble the elemets to have global stimuli. We pass in second phase, we compare global stimuli with a prior one. 
  first bottom up
  then top down