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Chapter 1

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Sam is a cognitive psychologist. What aspect of the legal process might he provide assistance with to the court?
Clarifying whether jurors understand the instructions for deliberating a verdict.
According to the article Neuroscience in the Courtroom, recent advances in neurosciences have:
Raised important questions about free will and personal responsibility.
The Daubert triology of cases impacts trial courts by:
Putting the burden of decisions about allowing expert testimony on trial judges.
For a reasonable evaluation of the scientific validity of a potential expert testimony, one needs to have sufficient understanding of:
Research methods.
In the 1960s-1970s, all of the following tendencies were developing, EXCEPT:
There was growing pessimism about the alliance of psychology and law.
Santiago is a clinical psychologist. His knowledge and skills might be most relevant for the legal system in which one of these cases?
When assessing a mentally ill defendant's competency to stand trial.
The roles of psychologists and their influence in the legal system created which positive changes?
Judges have to articulate more clearly what their decisions are based on.
Get=tough interventions like Scared Straight and boot camps have been found:
Not to work and even backfire.
When psychology and law are discussed as embodying different cultures, the fololowing underlying cultural differences are viewed as most important:
Behaviors, values, and beliefs.
Legal realism, as expressed by Karl Llewellyn in the 1920s-1930s, embodied all of the following views, EXCEPT:
Law should be judged independent of its effects.
Trial consultants are usually hired to perform the following duties:
Preparing witnesses and shaping trial strategy.
According to the test, psychology ____, whereas the legal system ____.
Emphasizes the characteristics of groups; emphasizes individual casaes.
Legal realists:
Believed judges constructed the law through their interpretations of evidence and precedent.
Berta is a developmental psychologist. Her knowledge and skills might be most relevant for the legal system in which one of these cases?
When evaluating the state of mind of a teenager who brought guns to school.
Isabella is advocating for a change in the way domestic violence victims are treated by the police ad the courts. This is an example of the following role played by psychologists in the legal system:
Reformer
Amicus curiae briefs:
Provide a way to influence the court when expert testimony is not allowed.
The text mentions several impactful ways for scientists to influence the legal system. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Lobbying legislators to pass laws requiring the testimony of psychologists at every trial.
Jasmine is a social psychologist. Her knowledge and skills might be most relevant for the legal system in which of these cases?
When studying how the type of interrogation is related tp the likelihood of false confession.
The ___ approach treats laws as being actively constructed by judges as serving social policy goals, whereas ___ treats laws as evolved to reflect the principles found in nature.
legal realism; "natural law"
When psychology and law are discussed as embodying different cultures, the following underlying differences between the two fields are considered most important:
Goals, methods, and styles of inquiry.
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