OU - Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation
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Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 8 weeks |
Total fee | ₹13,274 |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 8 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
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Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation at FutureLearn Course details
- Have you ever questioned how reliable your own mind is? In this 8-week forensic psychology course, you'll learn how the mind plays tricks on us and how this can impact criminal investigations. You'll discover how cautious the police have to be during eyewitness investigation, and you'll step into the shoes of a forensic psychologist.
- In this course, you'll get the chance to watch real eyewitness testimonies from behind the scenes of a criminal investigation, and it'll be your job to check how reliable they are.
- You'll start the investigation by learning about witness characteristics and taking witness statements with the police. Then you'll learn about international and change blindness and discover how to conduct a cognitive interview.
- Explore the psychology of how our minds recognize faces and challenge yourself on your own facial recognition abilities. Are you as good as you think you are?
- In this section of the course, you'll learn why it's so hard to describe a face accurately and consider the best techniques to obtain an image of the criminal from the mind of the eyewitness.
- By the end of the course, you'll get the opportunity to solve the crime using everything you've learned about forensic psychology and eyewitness testimony.
Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation at FutureLearn Curriculum
Introduction to eyewitness psychology
Introduction
Eyewitness psychology
The investigation
Initial statements
Witness characteristics and the crime
DI Bullet takes witness statements
DS Sund takes witness statements
Seeing and not seeing
Inattentional blindness
Change blindness
Questioning witnesses
Interviewing witnesses
DI Bullet interviews the witnesses
The cognitive interview
DS Sund interviews the witnesses
Making and recognising faces
Verbal and visual descriptions
Seeing the whole face
When face recognition goes wrong
Visual identification
Identification evidence
DI Bullet conducts an identity parade
DS Sund conducts an identity parade
Whodunnit?
DI Bullet?s investigation
DS Sund?s investigation
Solving the crime
Conclusion
Testing your forensic psychological knowledge
Looking to the future
Learning more about forensic psychology
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