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Forensic Psych- WK 1
Introduction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Forensic means 'of the courts'. Therefore, Forensic Psychology is literally ... | Psychology to do with the courts of law. |
| Define Criminal Psychology. | The psychology of criminal behaviors as well as the social context in which it occurs. |
| An expert witness must only state facts. true or false? | False. An expert witness is allowed to give his or her opinion. |
| List three legal criteria that must be met before a forensic psychologist can give expert evidence, as outlined under the Daubert Criteria and the Federal Rules of Evidence. | 1)relevancy.2)legal sufficiency.3)use of reliable principles and methods.4)reliable and falsifiable conclusion drawn.5) scientific method. |
| Australia uses similar criteria as Daubert. True or false? | True. |
| Prior to the 13th century, the offender's mental condition was irrelevant to sentencing.True or false? | True. |
| The first English trial in which the accused was acquitted based on the basis of insanity occurred as early as ______. | 1505. |
| Courts began to develop criteria to asses insanity in the ____ century. | 18th. |
| Competence to stand trial began in the ___ century in English common law. | 18th. |
| In 1893, J. Mckeen Cattell conducted the first experiment of the psychology of what? | The psychology of Testimony. |
| In 1917 psychologists first began to use psychological test to do what? | Screen law enforcement candidates. |
| The term 'forensic psychology' emerged in what decade? | the 1970s |
| in what year did the APA recognize forensic psychology as an applied specialty within the field? | 2001. |
| Beccaria's (late 18th century)argues free will and the pleasure/pain principle. the basic idea behind these principles were? | People will decide whether they will or will not offend. this decision will be based on the perceived costs and benefits of offending. |
| who first began research into the physical characteristics of criminals? | Lombroso. |
| The effect of media on witness memory was first studied in the lat 19th century by _____. | Shrenk-Nortzing. |
| What are some key similarities between law and psychology? | Both focus on the individuals and both focus on predicting, explaining and controlling behavior. |
| List four of the eight sources of conflict between law and psychology as argued by Haney (1980). | 1)Law stresses conservatism; psych stresses creativity.2)law is authoritative; psych is empirical.3)law relies on the adversarial process; psych relies on experimentation.4)law is prescriptive; psyh is descriptive. |
| law is reactive while psychology is what? | proactive. |
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