Test 3 Flashcards
What is a pyscologist
A professional who has either a bachelor’s or masters degree in pyscology
Whats a psychiatrist
A MD who specializes in brain chemistry and can prescribe meds
Two directions of forensic pyscology
Psychological findings infrom légal processes
Practice of clinical forensic pyscology
What year was forensic pyscology first introduced
1908
How many people witnessed the 1974 purse snatching study
52
How many people made the correct ID of the 1974 purse snatching study
7
Memory is….
Selective not copying
Recollection is….
Falsified with passage of time and influenced by beliefs, motives, stress, environment, expectancy, and sterotypes
What percentage are eyewitness accounts faulty
90%
What are two problems in eyewitness accounts
Unreliability of human information processing system
Procedures used by law enforcement to obtain eyewitness accounts of crimes
What are some factors to false confessions
Low self esteem, eagerness to please, anxiety, compliance, unconscious guilt feelings, say they commit crimes to be punished, fatigue, and frightened
Today in forensic psychology…..
Studies influence the legal system but courts have been slow in accepting the credibility of such reaserch
Clinical forensic pyscology
Pretrial exams to determine competency and criminal responsibility.
Presentence evaluations to help determine proper disposition for the offender
Pyscological testing
Quantative way to evaluate personality, pyscopathology, mental functioning
Limits of pyscological testing
Not validated to inform about legal behavior
Tests don’t address exact legal questions
Rorschach
Subjects perceptions of ink bolts are recorded then analyzed
Thematic Apperceprion test
The subject is asked to tell a story based on a picture for each picture represented
Projective figure drawings
Diagnostic techniques in which an individual is instructed to draw a person, an object, or a situation so that cognitive, interpersonal, or pyscological functioning can be assessed
Personality inventories
To assist in identifying personality structure and pyscopathology
Hare pyscopathy check list revised
Is a pyscological assessment tool that is commonly used to assess the presence and extent of pyscopathy in individuals
Roles Forensic psychologist and psychiatrists play In criminal law
Awnser questions like
Does the suspect fit the pyscological profile?
Is the suspect competent to stand trail, to be executed, waive rights, responsable for this crime?
Roles of forensic psychologist and psychiatrists in civil law
Was the person mentally competent when making out a will?
Is the person fit to be a parent?
The aura phase
Begins to manifest itself by a gradual withdrawal from reality and life. Killer begins to have changes in personality, lessened social interaction, fantasizes about a kill
The trolling phase
Search for a suitable victim looks for location to approach victim and, if organized, to dump a body
The wooing phase
Killer lures the intended victim by gaining their trust
The capture phase
Victim is incapacitated, entrapped
The murder phase
Organized: torture, control
Disorganized: kills immediately, necrophilia, depersonalization
The totem phase
Seeks to take by which to remeber the feeling of the kill
The depression phase
The torture and murder did not meet exceptions of the aura phase
Souvenirs
Memento taken from victims or crime scene to memorize the event for the offender. May include jewelry, photos, clothes ID exct..
Modus operandi
A criminals habits and techniques, may change over time, depending on what the offender has learned is successful and unsuccessful, of their own preferences
Signature
Behaviors that are unique to the offender because they represent the psychological needs of the offender
