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PSYC 395 FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXAM STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS
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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