Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
REASON: during first interview, she mentioned how she was an emotional intelligence trainer and how it was an important psychological element that I should look into -defines emotional intelligence (one's capacity to be able to handle their emotions in a professional environment) -list the ways to improve your EI level (pay attention to self-awareness, self-reflection, self -regulation which is the ability to control your emotions and impulses, motivation and empathy such as considering the wants and needs of people around you) -businesses make their employees go through training, demanding more EI trainers -looked this up because it is another job in the psychology field, also is relevant when dealing with victims and evaluating how to interact with them and interrogating criminals. |
REASON: Establishes the different fields of psychology and their required degree level -DEFINE EACH FIELD -helped me pinpoint what area of psychology I wanted to do -There isn’t a lot of jobs available with an associate's degree other than a technician at a hospital |
|
|
REASON: explain the need for forensic psychology -Forensic psychologist do many tasks such as, “threat assessments for school, child custody evaluations, competency evaluations of criminal defendants and of the elderly, counseling services to victims of crime, death notification procedures, screening and selection of law enforcement applicants, the assessment of post -traumatic stress disorder and the delivery and evaluation of intervention and treatment programs for juvenile and adult offenders -sane vs insane fate -why forensic psychology in the police field is beneficial to the mentally ill |
REASON: during first interview, she mentioned how she was an emotional intelligence trainer and how it was an important psychological element that I should look into-defines emotional intelligence (one's capacity to be able to handle their emotions in a professional environment) -list the ways to improve your EI level (pay attention to self-awareness, self-reflection, self-regulation which is the ability to control your emotions and impulses, motivation and empathy such as considering the wants and needs of people around you) -businesses make their employees go through training, demanding more EI trainers -looked this up because it is another job in the psychology field, also is relevant when dealing with victims and evaluating how to interact with them and interrogating criminals. |
|
|
REASON: i know what i want to do when i get older and that’s analyze the mental state of criminals and this is a job that includes that -most F.P are found in the FBI so that gives me a clue to where to find a mentor. -the article goes into detail on how psychology came to be useful in the law force as it started with a case of a bomber: for 16 years, a mad bomber named George Metesky outsmarted NYC police, planting more than 30 small bombs around the city between 1940 and 1956, hitting movie theaters, phone booths and other public areas. In 1956, an investigators finally asked psychiatrist James Brussel to study crime scene photos and notes from the bomber. Brussel came up with a detailed description of the suspect: He would be unmarried, foreign, self-educated, in his 50s, living in Connecticut, paranoid and with a vendetta against Con Edison--the first bomb had targeted the power company's 67th street headquarters. He said that because paranoia tends to peak around age 35, the bomber, 16 years after his first bomb, would now be in his 50s. The profile proved dead on: It led police right to Metesky, who was arrested in January 1957 and confessed immediately. From then on, police in New York began consulting psychologist, inventing the practice. Forensic psychologist then on to mainly rape and homicide cases. -goes through tactics a behavioral scientist when addressing criminals and figuring out how to analyze them |
REASON- when looking at my last article, it mentioned malingers and made me wonder how they set the liars and actually mentally ill people apart-in 2012, there was a movie theatre shooter named James Holmes, who, in court, appeared to have his hair dyed red and tried to mimic the behavior of an insane person. -to tell if a person is faking the illness, psychologist have a series of procedures. First, they research the criminal’s history, as a mental illness doesn’t develop overnight. Also, if the criminal did things to trick the police, such as hiding evidence or wiping fingerprints, this is a clear sign of logical thinking, not a mental illness. -Also, the investigators conduct long and multiple interviews, to try to catch the suspect in a lie or to see if they drop the act. Because most malingers try to mimic what they see in the media, forensic psychologist also look for mixing symptoms, A prime example is when people claim that the voices in their heads told them to do these crimes, implying they’re schizophrenics, but “only a small percentage are command hallucinations and even fewer command a violent act.” Malingerers also may exaggerate their symptoms, and combined with their inaccurate behavior and lack of mental illness history, they are easy to find: the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test, which asks a series of phony and real symptoms or the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms, a memory test, in which even someone with amnesia can pass. Victims of amnesia don’t completely forget everything, so it’s not hard to catch someone in the lie |
|
|
REASON: i researched this to establish the basic necessities such as education and skills that I will need for this career. -in order to speak to anyone, as a psychologist you need a doctorates degree and a license to treat people. -the article estimated a 19% increase in the need for forensic psychologist which is positive for me because I know I’m going into a career that is still needed -other than that, the article reiterated things I already knew such as tasks of a forensic psychologist and their role in law enforcement. -I found this article helpful because it included specific, helpful information that I didn’t know, and gave me insight on the importance of my job in the future. |
-he works in crimes against children so he has to use psychology to know how to approach children of a case. Also psychology plays a part in how willing your suspect will be to cooperate. -that the court and the media will want the truth so the pressure from them to solve the cases. Also, all detectives do is find the truth, so the facts that may be presenting may find one person guilty and they may get backlash from that -Detective Hornsby told me a story about how he was interviewing a suspect and misheard them, so wrote down what he heard in the report but later, when the suspect was asked about it, said otherwise so detective Hornsby immediately changed it rather than lying about it. He said that lying would mess up the case and come back to you, and that it would be easier to own up to your mistakes. You may initially receive a consequence but it’s better to face it head on rather than to continue lying -A detective not only interviews suspects but analyzes crime scenes, cell phone analysis and blood splatter. He said a lot of that analysis is common sense but your have to know small things about medical injuries, like if a suspect claims to hurt their arm in a crash, determine whether they can even do that based on how they were sitting |
|
|
-i sat in on my mentor’s class, Psych of the Offender and in this lecture, they learned about multicide, which is the killing of multiple victims. -in the 1980’s, the FBI developed 3 types of killers: a spree killer, mass killer and serial killer. To define multicide, the type of killer can be defined in the amount of people they kill, location and time period the murders are taken over. |
-also, during the lecture, she went into depth of the different types of serial killers such as a -visionary serial killer, who may “be told to kill”, a mission killer, who kills to get rid of “bad people,” or has a goal/motive in their killings, a power control killer who kills to feel gratitude in having total control and a hedonistic killer which has many sub categories: -a lust killer who may have various sexual offenses and enjoy things like necrophilia, and it may be hard for the offender to stop. Their killings are organized and process focused which means they enjoy the process of killing the victims, so it’s a prolonged killing, then theres a A thrill killer who, once the victim is dead, the thrill is gone. They enjoy the pleasure of killing and often stalk their victims, which means the kills are process focused, and lastly there is. -A comfort killer who kills to enjoy life, and to gain material possession so the killer will most likely kill people they know because they know what the victim has and the killings are act focused because they don’t care about the feeling murder gives them, just what they gain from it so they just try to get the killing over with. This was helpful because i got to experience what the college elective classes ill be taking in college will be like and explored a subject that i was unfamiliar with |
|
|
-even though i dont want to be in clinical psychology, i wanted to a the application of psychology in another field -she was the first to mention the term “emotional intelligence” to me, as she is also an emotional intelligence trainer -her job at Counseling and Empowerment is an emotional wellness psychologist, and she works with people with low self esteems -reviewed the way she profiles her clients: meets with them in person first and has them fill out background information about their past to find the root of the problem |
-even though he’s not specifically a forensic psychologist, he still uses psychology in his everyday life and does similar task of a criminal profiler -theres different way to getting into forensics as it is a combination of both law and psychology but he took the law route -forensic psychologist deal with people and forensic analyst deal with evidence of a crime investigation such as the way the blood splattered may tell a forensic blood analyst how they were hit. -I asked what the fate of a retired FBI agent would be, and Mr. Skillestad explained that they do not have any more ties to the FBI anymore but still have connections. They can also stop being an agent and go into Crisis Management which makes presentations about community issues such as shooters and try to prevent it. They aren’t active in investigation, rather than research and presenting the information |
|
|
-at this point, i hadn’t found a forensic psychologist, so i thought to seek someone in the frisco police department, as they work with psychology as well in their everyday life -i still wanted to work with criminals and analyze them so i thought becoming a criminal profiler would be the next best thing to forensic psychology but Mr. Walter pointed out how small of a portion it is to the criminal investigative unit, which pointed me to interviewing more detectives. -when i asked about how psychology plays a part in criminal investigation, he explained that if a criminal comes off narcissistic then they as investigators will tailor their questions to tend to the criminals egos to make them reveal information, which i thought was a helpful strategy -he also advised me to minor in criminal justice, but major in psychology, to understand the law side of the field |
-as a supervisor, he speaks to citizens and assigns cases to patrol officers from drugs to prostitution -advised me to separate home and work life -he said that self analysis is important like the ability to keep professional and make sure you’re doing things for the right reasons, as well as the ability to handle yourself under stress and maintain a healthy life and physical health |
|
|
-in order to become a detective, one has to be a patrol officer for a year, and he said that this has helped him with his investigation skills. As a detective, you make decisions based on the information presented to you whereas when you’re out patrolling, you get more hands on experience to use your investigative skills. -as a detective, you may have to work 20-30 cases at a time, in order of importance and available information. Because you may be working so many cases, you need to be able to time manage and not neglect any cases. -It is often “a waiting game,” waiting to receive information, lab results or to interview people. It may be stressful to have the burden but that's why it is important to be able to multitask. -in order to be a good detective, you need to know the law thoroughly and to keep up with any changed, you need to study the law daily. -detective ferrante said not to assume that you know everything about a case and to look at your evidence, and double check your work. You may have missed something, like a flaw in someone’s story that may well be a lie and lead to another case. |
-she went to NYU but got her Ph.D from UNT. she said you get a lof of hands on experience in graduate school as she did three years of training in graduate school but nine years of evaluations on her own -In order to become a forensic psychologist, she started as general prison psychologist, doing strictly clinical work but then specialized in forensic evaluations.so she said knowing how to do clinical work is also important and useful even if you don’t plan to go into that -She first asks them general questions about their past, to try to get to know them. Based on this meeting, in the next interview, they do logical tests, and everyone gets a different test addressing things such as court knowledge, and test to see if you’re faking your illness. Based on the results, you do additional tests or decide that you have enough information for whatever the court order is asking for |
|
|
- i met Ms. Sharf through the lady I interview previously and she’s a graduate student at UNT as well as a psychologist at the Women’s prison in Ft. Worth. -because you get a lot of hands on experience in grad school, she explained to me that she’s very busy and does a lot: she teaches a psychology class called psych of the offender, has regular meetings with her research team, works at the women’s jail and all of that has helped her learn how to time manage and balance her schedule out. -as a graduate student, you do mainly clinical work, as she does clinical technician work at the women’s hospital. Clinical psychology is the most well known psychology which is just treating people and speaking with them, so it’s common to found yourself having to do that -because she is my mentor, I sat in on one of her classes earlier this week where they were learning about the different types of serial killers and what defines each. There isn’t just one type of killer, they all have categories and characteristic, and the differences between them may blur. And none of these killers are linked to any mental illness because people with mental illnesses may not break the law just because of their disease so it’s a stigma that all people who commit murder have a mental illness. |
-this is my mentor Allyson Sharf. She got her bachelor degree from the University of Florida in 2012 and is a graduate student at UNT, double majoring in criminology and psychology. She also works at the women’s prison in fort worth where she is a clinical technician but also does forensic work such as assessments for competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility which is analyzing a criminal’s mental state during the time of crime. -in order to get into graduate school, she had to apply under a mentor, and her mentor requires her to be on a research team. The research team focuses on Miranda Rights and malingering, which is the act of faking a mental illness. Because she’s a 4th year student, she takes on more of the writing and editing manuscripts rather than doing the research, she manages projects and does the administrative work. -as a graduate student, she’s had many publications revolving around her thesis, which was “the Effects of Immaturity on Juveniles' Miranda Comprehension and Reasoning,” -she’s the perfect mentor for me because she has vast experience in the psychology field and is on a research team that focuses on malingering which is what my final product revolves around |
|
|
-I aspire to be a forensic psychologist. In order to accomplish this goal, I will need to graduate college with a degree in psychology and minor in criminology. After this, I will need to work or intern at a place with forensic psychology jobs available. -My final product will be analyzing movies with ‘insane’ or ‘psychotic’ villains. A forensic psychologist assesses a criminal’s mental state, and often, criminals fake being ‘insane,’ to go to a mental institution rather than prison, but their symptoms don’t match actual symptoms of an ‘insane’ person. To emphasize this epidemic, I will watch movies and analyze the behavior and ‘symptoms’ of the villains and determine whether these actually represent a person with true mental issues. -To achieve this, I need a mentor who is familiar with malingering and does extensive research on it, which is why my mentor, Allyson Sharf, a graduate student at UNT is perfect to be my mentor. She is on a research team that studies Miranda Rights and malingering. -The first step of doing my project will be to have to list all the movies I will need to watch and create a schedule for watching them. The things I have in mind to watch are films like Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, the tv show, Twin Peaks, and Split. -From there, I will analyze the movie’s portrayal of the villain, establish what was accurate and inaccurate about the character performance. I’ve seen Twin Peaks and it is perfect for my project because the main villains are schizophrenics yet “hear voices telling them to do bad things” which is a common misconception for schizophrenics. If they do hear voices in their heads, the voices are rarely telling them to do violent things. |
|
