Choose a specific topic of interest to you from Ch 5 in C&K, Ch 1 in Minds on Trial, or the lecture.
Learn more about that topic. Do your best googling to find the highest quality information possible on your topic. Report on your findings here. Use at least three links, and provide those as well.
Lie to Me
Option 1
View any episode of Lie to Me (available via streaming on Netflix; or in some video stores).
Summarize the episode for us. Next, analyze what elements of the episode and lie detection strategies in particular are true, and which are exagerated or altogether false. Be specific in your analysis drawing on lecture and your reading materials.
Option 2
Read this link: http://face-and-emotion.com/dataface/facets/deception.jsp
Watch this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PAW7zjgPw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Summarize the links for us. Next, analyze each in terms of the lie detection strategies or features that are presented, and discuss whether they are true, or are exagerated or altogether false. Be specific in your analysis drawing on lecture and your reading materials.
Read Chapter 3 of C&K on lie detection.
What did you learn from this chapter that you did not know before? Discuss at least two basic psychological processes that are involved in detecting deceit in others. Is lie detection different if it is a legal context (questionning a suspect), vs in a social situation (talking to a friend)? Why or why not? Defend your answer.
Find one additional site that relates to lie detection that you want to share and provide it here along with a description.
Lineup Construction and Evaluation
Put together a lineup. Read the eyewitness guide for information on how to put together a lineup.
Go here: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/AppCommon/
Choose a guy (search on some characteristics, or a name).
Then find fillers to match
Copy and paste into a word document
Print.
Show to friends, collect data according to instructions provided in the below link.
Read: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/consult05B.html
Calculate lineup bias: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/documents/bias-calc.xls
Write about your experience and findings here.
Read the Guide (blue book) provided to you earlier in the semester.
After reading it, discuss some aspect of it that struck you as particularly interesting, insightful, or surprising.
Next, what elements of psychology do you see as underpinnings of the various guidelines? Choose two and specifically detail how the science of psychology is the basis of the particular rule.
Read Chapter 1 in Minds on Trial about George Metesky.
Summarize the chapter. What profiling techniques were used in his apprehension? How integral were they to his ultimate capture? Do you think the techniques were scientifically valid? Does it matter, if in the end you catch the person? What are your thoughts on that issue?
Find some more information about this case and discuss it here. Provide your links.
For this week, read Ch 5 in C&K on profling
Summarize the chapter. Did you learn anything surprising? Were any of your own ideas about profiling debunked by reading this chapter? What is something you want to learn more about? Search on that topic and report on some additional information about that topic. Provide any links to resources.
Your posts should be getting progressively longer and more detailed. You should clearly link psychology to the legal context under evaluation.
Elizabeth Loftus is arguably one of the most important scientists in the area of memory evidece and false memories.
Learn as much as you can about her, her research, and how it applies to the law. Googling loftus memory will give you a good start. Your textbook also has a lot of information about her.
What did you learn? What were you must surprised about? Which of her research findings did you find most fascinating? Why do you think her research has been controversial? Does it deserve to be? How has her work helped us understand memory in general, and memory evidence in particular?
Read Chapter 14 in Minds on Trial about Gary and Holly Ramona.
Summarize the chapter. What aspects of their crimes and the evidence collected from those crimes have something to do with psychology? Be specific and provide examples.
Find some more information about this case and discuss it here. Provide your links.
For this week, read Ch 7 in C&K on eyewitness identification and testimony.
Summarize the chapter. What is the most interesting thing you learned? What surprised you the most? What is something you want to learn more about? Search on that topic and report on some additional information about that topic. Provide any links to resources.
Your posts should be getting progressively longer and more detailed. You should clearly link psychology to the legal context under evaluation.
Go to this website: http://vanessawest.tripod.com/crimescenephotos.html
The site is not very organized, but if you scroll down you will see that there are crime scene photos of various famous crimes. Browse around as much as you want. Be aware these are graphic. If you are blood phobic, skip this part and don't click on the links, just read the crime titles.
Choose a crime from the website (e.g., OJ Simpson). Now find out as much as you can about that crime. It is acceptable for this assignment to use Wikipedia and Google to get information. What was your chosen crime scene like? What elements of crime scene investigation were required for this case you chose? What psychological factors are relevant to the crime scene and the investigation of it? What aspects of your readings are relevant to crime scenes in general, and your crime scene in particular?
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