Introduction

Question 1

What are the four characteristics of law?

Answer 1

Perscriptive
Certainty
Adversarial methods
Hierarchical

Question 2

What are the four characteristics of pscyhology?

Answer 2

Descriptive
Probability
Experimental
Empirical

Question 3

What are the three ways that psychology and law interact

Answer 3

Psychology IN law
Psychology AND law
Psychology OF law

Question 4

In what five ways can psychology influence the legal system?

Answer 4

Cross-disciplinary training
Amicus-curiae brief
Disseminate research findings
Influence legislature and public policy
Expert testimony

Question 5

Factual innocence

Answer 5

The accused did not commit the crime

Question 6

Legal innocence

Answer 6

The accused commited the crime but received insufficient legal defense

Question 7

What are the five primary effects of wrongful convictions?

Answer 7

Loss of liberty
Physical and sexual assult in prison
Psychological symptoms
Post-institutionalization problems
Legal consequences

Question 8

What are the four secondary effects of wrongful convictions?

Answer 8

Impact on families - time, money, energy expenditure to help convicted
Impact on victims - awareness of helping convict innocent man
Impact on public - lose faith in CJS
Wrongful liberty

Question 9

What are the five causes of wrongful convictions?

Answer 9

Eyewitness misidentification
Jailhouse informants
Poor scientific and forensic evidence
Noble cause corruption
Tunnel vision

Question 10

What are the three kinds of confirmation bias?

Answer 10

Selective attention
Selective interpretation
Selective memory