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59 Cards in this Set
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ALI test
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Found in the Insanity defense reform act 1984, to test the mental capacity of a criminal
Total v. Substantial mental capacity appreciates the nature of the crime |
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Brandeis briefs
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Empirical studies used as evidence in Muller v. Oregon
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Brief psychotic disorder
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A moment of psychosis, though vanishing after the act
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Determinism
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Behavior is predicted from past actions
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Disability of the mind test
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DSM Version IV Rt
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental disorders
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Dualist
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Mind as a control, and influences the brain and body
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Durham test
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an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect
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Empirical approach
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Experience through the senses
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Forensic psychology
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Applications of psychology unto the law
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GBMI
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Guilty but mentally ill
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John Watson
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Father of behaviorism, later worked for advertising
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McClesky v. Kemp
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(1987) Black man kills white cop>Executed (display of sociological jurisprudence)
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Men rea
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Showing a guilty mind, showing malicious intent
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Mitigating factors
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Past actions of the accused that may explain action in question
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M'Naghten test
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1. Defect of the mind
2. Does not know the nature of the act 3. Did not know right from wrong |
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Monoist
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All is mind
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Muller v. Oregon
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(1908) Welfare legislation limiting 10 workdays for females in factories
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NGRI
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Not guilty by reason of insanity
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Operational terms
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Actions or data that can be immediately observed, not analyzed or interpreted
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Reliability
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Consistent results or outcome over time
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Replicability
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To be able to produce similar results in a test or study
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Subjective truthfulness
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Subject believing they are telling the truth, but are, in reality, lying
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Tasks of Psychology
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1. Describe 2.Predict 3.Explain 4.Control
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Trial consultants
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Role playing jurors to identify issues jurors may have with a case
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United states v. Brawner
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Developed model penal code in order to assist legislation in diagnosis of criminals
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Wild beast test
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Formulated in Rex v. Arnold (1723), a criminal act caused by a delusion
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William James
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Believes consciousness is bits of awareness
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irresistible impulse test
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the duress of such mental disease [that] he had ... lost the power to choose between right and wrong"
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post traumatic stress disorder
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A psychological event that is outside usual human experience 1.direct 2. Indirect
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Flashback
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An event or item that triggers a response to past trauma
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Commonwealth v. Rogers
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(1844) NGRI A stabbing in the neck
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Actus reus
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the act of a crime
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Appropriate medical treatment test
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Replacing the "treat-ability test", to identify the degree of a patients/criminals condition
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Hospital order
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An order by the courts to send someone to a mental facility
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Restriction order
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to restrict a patients movement
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Automatism
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Involuntary movement of the body
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Competency to stand trial
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The ability to understand the nature and purpose of court hearings, confirmed by competency evaluation
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Malingering
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An attempt to plead insanity to avoid jail
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Volitional aspect of insanity
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The loss of the ability to control behavior
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Affirmative defense
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Client argues insanity claiming no guilt
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Anxiety disorders (1 of 5)
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To have anxiety due to a certain fear caused by the Autonomic nervous system
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Autonomic nervous system
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1.Sympathetic, to fight
2. Parasympathetic, to bring back to normal |
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (Anxiety disorder)
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Having a certain obsession, and to decrease anxiety must act upon that obsession
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Simple-phobia (Anxiety disorder)
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Fear of specific objects, bug, heights, needles etc.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Anxiety disorder)
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Constantly worried about things happening. Do not understand probability versus possibility
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Post traumatic stress disorder (anxiety disorder)
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Anxiety caused by flashback, past serious events
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Mood (Category 2 of 5)
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Major depressive episodes, sleep, eating, agitations, worthlessness help v hope
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3 Modes of thinking
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Global: Everything around me is problem (school, work, love)
Internal: Every problem i have is my fault Stable: All these problems are never going to change |
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False negative and positive thoughts
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Positive: Think you're fine but you're really sick
Negative: Think you're sick but you're fine |
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Bi-Polar (mood)
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Key distinction: mania
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (mood)
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Days are shorter, and depression get worse
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Dis-associative disorder (3 of 5)
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Dis-attach from reality and surroundings
-Mild depersonalization (ligaments are not mine -Dis-associative fugue (Amnesia of who you are) -Ultimate (No idea who you are) |
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Munchhausen + (Bi-proxy)
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Injury to self for attention>injury to others for attention
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Personality Disorders (5 of 5)
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most difficult to treat, person IS the disorder
-Anti-social (no sympathy or empathy for others) -Histaryonic (must be center of attention) -Narcissistic (must be loved to feel important -Border line(crazy women) -Schizophrenia, no reality |
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Positive symptoms v negative symptoms
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Those who have them and others dont
Those who dont have traits that most should have |
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Co-morbid
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2 disorders in one person
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Conversion disorder
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was called hysteria, uterus traveling through the body
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Volitional aspect of insanity
v. Irresistible Impulse |
1. As with prior history and development
2. As instantaneous and momentous |
