Psych + Law Exam 2

Intrustive and persistent

Repressed event must have actually occured and the memory needs to have been inaccessible and recovered through a process that's different than normal forgetting

129 women examined in ERs as children for suspected sexual abuse. 17 years later they were interviewed about sexual victimization. 38% of women did not report the ER visit. This study is taken as "quite dramatic" evidence of repression

Competence and insanity

now

at the time of the crime

contemporaneous

retrospective

faking sanity/lying

judge

narrow

they undergo competence restoration

medication management, inpatient treatment, educational processes

if competence restoration does not work, accused individuals can be held for up to a year

charges can be dropped

guilty mind: was the defendant "insane" at the time of the crime?

retrospectively

through colateral contact

recommendation based on their expertise. they cannot testify to the ultimate issue

using info as probative based on assumptions about the connection between defendatn charactersitics and guilt likelihood

predictors correlated with each other. (ex. iq and gpa being used to predict salary)

has theory/technique been tested? has the theory/technique been subject to peer review? what is the potential error rate in the theory/technique? to what extent has the theory/technique received general acceptance in the scientific community

the judge

affidavit is submitted, Daubert hearing held, judge decides admissability

pool of people from which a jury is selected

asking questions, using them to figure out if someone should be on a jury

based on driver's license, voter registration

identify and eliminate unfavorable and select favorable jurors, indoctrinate prospective jurors, create positive impressions abt self and client

long deliberations, minorities, hung juries, acquittal

desire to fit in

desire to be right