Cognitive Psychology and Forensic Inference

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Course Outline

  1. Scope, History, and Methods
  2. Perception and Psychophysics
  3. Attention and Working Memory
  4. Long-Term Memory and Forgetting
  5. Learning, Language, and Thought
  6. Reasoning, Decisions, and Control
  7. Social Cognition and Development
  8. Eyewitness Memory and Identification
  9. Interviewing and False Confessions
  10. False Confession Mechanisms
  11. Confession Evaluation Safeguards
  12. Deception Detection Limits
  13. Expert Bias and Technology
  14. Cognitive Psychology and Crime
  15. Forensic Inference Ladder
  16. Applied Forensic Formulations
  17. Core Corrections and Synthesis

1. Scope, History, and Methods

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Cognitive psychology : studies how organisms acquire, select, transform, store, retrieve, and use information
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1. What does cognitive psychology investigate when studying information processing?

2. What does the field of cognitive psychology primarily study?

3. Why does a statistically reliable laboratory effect require further evaluation before being applied to a forensic case?

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What does cognitive psychology study about organisms?

How organisms acquire, select, transform, store, retrieve, and use information.

Cognitive psychology

Studies how organisms acquire and use information.

Which author distinguished levels of analysis in cognitive science?

Marr.

Reliable experimental effect

A change observed under specific conditions.

What does perception transform at sensory receptors?

Perception transforms energy into action-relevant representations.

Associations

Do not imply causation or direction.

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