STUDY GUIDE
FINAL EXAMINATION
The Final examination will be administered on December 2nd and 9th,
2008. It will be a comprehensive examination and include all written materials
Provided during the term as well as material included in your text.
This will include the following material from your text:
Part I Ch. 1-2
Part II Ch. 4-7; and 9
Part III Ch. 11-14
Part IV Ch. 17
Part VI Ch. 26 (overview)
Part VII Ch. 27-28 (provided during first several classes pertaining to organizing
evaluations and ethical considerations.
Material presented to you includes NGRI, Competency, Criminal Code
information, Domestic Violence, Future Dangerousness, Cycle of Violence and
Evaluation of Child Sexual abuse.
Material from the films will not be included on the final examination.
Part I:
Terms, issues, processes and history
“legal psychology”
4 major areas of forensic psychology
factual v opinion testimony
Frye v U.S.; State v Driver; People v Hawthorne;
Jenkins v U.S.
4 discernible and overlapping historical trends in
American police psychology
Define Forensic Psychology
Three ways psychology and law interact
Psy. In the law
Psy. By the law
Psy of the law
Reasonable man hypothesis
Distinctions between Psychology and law
Roles of a forensic psychologist
Amicus curiae
Issues regarding discretion in ch. 2
All other areas on test from ch. 1-2
People
Munsterberg
Goddard
Marston
Part II
Purpose of domestic court
Rule of reason
Case approach v nomothetic approach of scientific psychology
Parens patriae
Importance of 9th and 10th amendments re fed. And state court functions
Nature of marriage; marital and family privacy
Dissolution of marriage: void and voidable; annulment and Divorce
No-fault divorce
The following terms with respect to marriage conflicts and ADR
Conciliation, mediation; arbitration; collaboration; parent education programs
Stats on domestic violence/spousal abuse
See also all written material on domestic violence; cycle of violence
Three types of family matters in which a psych. May provide custody
recommendations
Tender years presumption
Guidelines for child custody evaluations; areas of guidelines
Assessment methods in child custody evaluations
Custody arrangements discussed in class; standard; split 2-5;5-2
Open adoptions; overseas adoptions
Child abuse and assessment; necessity to report; definition; prevalence
See also hand out materials
Cps function in Texas
PI evaluations; material considered; test used
Knowing the literature
Malingering
Cry for help
Workers comp and Title 9 workplace cases
Profiles v base rates
Faking bad; faking good
Competency in employment; peter principle
Witness competency
Competency to make a will and to contract
Competency to authorize medical care; and also for a minor child
Part III
Memory acquisition , retention and retrieval
Core v peripheraldetails; impact on both types
Flashbulb memory; u-shaped function; weapon focus
Delay and forgetting curve
Factors influencing children’s recall of traumatic experience
Impact of misleading post event data; misinformation
Gap filling
Verbatim v gist traces in memory
Sleeper effect
Source monitoring
Interviewing techniques CI v NICHD
Who does which one and why
Other interviewing considerations
Special issues from 268 ff
Recovered childhood memories and childhood abuse
Repressed memories; role of counselors
Children’s suggestibility and factors in
Competency to stand trial; definition of competency
Dusky v U.S.
Competency assessment procedures
Sell v U.S. – issues and outcome
Functional approach to competency assessments; six factors
CST; CSI; IFI; FIT
Mac Arthur competency assessment
CAST-Mr.
Differences between adults and juveniles for competency
NGRI standards and history from hand out and book; definition etc
Rogers Crim. Responsibility Assessment Scales
Durham
Guilty but mentally ill
Diminished capacity
Actus reus; mens rea
General v specific intent
Defendant’s level of culpability (purpose, know, reckless, negligence)
1st v 2nd degree offenses
premeditation and deliberation
malice
Tarasoff v Regents of U. C.
Daniel White
Twinkie defense