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PSYC 395 FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXAM STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS Clinical forensic psychologists - ANSWER-Psychologists who are broadly concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the law or legal system Psychology of the law - ANSWER-The use of psychology to e...

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PSYC 395 FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXAM

STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS


Clinical forensic psychologists - ANSWER✔✔-Psychologists who are broadly concerned with the

assessment and treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the law or legal system


Psychology of the law - ANSWER✔✔-The use of psychology to examine the law itself


Experimental Forensic Psychologists - ANSWER✔✔-Psychologists who are broadly concerned with the

study of human behaviour as it relates to the law or legal system


Daubert Criteria - ANSWER✔✔-A standard for accepting expert testimony, which states that scientific

evidence is valid if the research on which it is based has been peer reviewed, is testable, has a

recognized rate of error, and adheres to professional standards


Expert Witness - ANSWER✔✔-A witness who provides the court with information (often an opinion on a

particular matter) that assists the court in understanding an issue of relevance to a case


Forensic Psychiatry - ANSWER✔✔-A field of medicine that deals with all aspects of human behaviour as

it relates to the law or legal system


General Acceptance Test - ANSWER✔✔-A standard for accepting expert testimony, which states that

expert testimony will be admissible in court if the basis of the testimony is generally accepted within the

relevant scientific community




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Mohan Criteria - ANSWER✔✔-A standard for accepting expert testimony, which states that expert

testimony will be admissible in court if the testimony is relevant, is necessary for assisting the trier of

fact, does not violate any exclusionary rules, and is provided by a qualified expert


Psychology and the law - ANSWER✔✔-study of the psychological and behavioral dimensions of the legal

system


Psychology in the law - ANSWER✔✔-The use of psychology in the legal system as that system operates


Forensic psychology is a field of medicine that deals with all aspects of human behavior as it relates to

the law or legal system. True or False? - ANSWER✔✔-False. It relates to all the law or legal system


What are clinical forensic psychologists broadly concerned with? - ANSWER✔✔-the assessment and

treatment of mental health issues as they pertain to the law or legal system


What are experimental forensic psychologists broadly concerned with? - ANSWER✔✔-the study of

human behavior are it relates to the law or legal system


What is Daubert Criteria? - ANSWER✔✔-a standard for accepting expert testimony, which states that

scientific evidence is valid if the research upon which is baed has been peer reviewed, it testable, has a

recognized rate of error, and adheres to professional standards.


What is the Mohan criteria? - ANSWER✔✔-a standard for accepting expert testimony which states that

expert testimony will be admissible in court if the testimony is relevant, necessary for assisting the trier

of fact, doesn't violate any exclusionary rules, and is provided by a qualified expert.


The general acceptance test states that only general testimony will be admissible in court where expert

testimony isn't credible, lacking, or not available. True or False? - ANSWER✔✔-False. The general




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acceptance states the expert testimony will be admissible in court if the basis of the testimony is

generally accepted withing the relevant scientific community


An expert witness provides the court with an opinion on a particular matter that assists the court in

understanding an issue of relevance to a case. True or False? - ANSWER✔✔-True


police discretion - ANSWER✔✔-The freedom that a police officer often has for deciding what should be

done in any given situation


The more serious the case, the less discretion is offered to the police offer. True or false? - ANSWER✔✔-

True


Use-of-force-continuum - ANSWER✔✔-A model that is supposed to guide police officer decision making

in use-of-force situations by indicating what level of force is appropriate given the suspect's behaviour

and other environmental conditions


The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is an assessment instrument used to identify police

applicants who are suitable for police work by measuring their personality attributes and behavior

patterns. True or false? - ANSWER✔✔-False. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is an

assessment instrument for identifying people with psychopathological problems. The Inwals Personality

Inventory is an assessment instrument used to identify police applicants who are suitable for police work

by measuring their personality attributes and behavior patterns.


Police selection procedures - ANSWER✔✔-A set of procedures used by the police to either screen out

undesirable candidates or select in desirable candidates




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A job analysis is a procedure for identifying the knowledge, skills, and abilities that make up a good

police officer. Which of the following are problems in conducting a job analysis? - ANSWER✔✔-1) a good

officer may not be stable over time, which make it difficult to determine what to test for.


2) Different types of policing jobs will be characterized by different types of knowledge, skills, and

attitudes.


3) people may disagree over which knowledge, skills and attitudes are important for policing.


Policing is a stressful occupation ________stressors include inaccurate press reports and ineffectiveness

of social services agencies - ANSWER✔✔-public


Policing is a stressful occupation _______stressors include lack of career development and excessive

paperwork - ANSWER✔✔-organizational


Policing is a stressful occupation ___________ stressors include shift work and human suffering. -

ANSWER✔✔-occupational


Policing is a stressful occupation _________stressors include the ineffectiveness of the corrections

system and unfavourable court decisions. - ANSWER✔✔-criminal justice


Police officers cannot the sources of job-related stress. Which of the following strategies is likeley to be

most effective in combating the negative effects of stress? - ANSWER✔✔-applying adaptive coping skills


Assessment Centre - ANSWER✔✔-A facility in which the behaviour of police applicants can be observed

in a number of situations by multiple observers


Cognitive ability tests - ANSWER✔✔-Procedure for measuring verbal, mathematical, memory, and

reasoning abilities



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