History of psychological assessment testimony

Admissibility of expert psychological and psychiatric testimony

18.1.1 Expert testimony: background The purpose of civil and criminal trials is to decide issues of fact and of law. In England, Wales and Scotland, issues of fact in the most serious criminal trials are decided by juries and issues of law by judges. For several centuries, decisions about issues of fact, in certain cases, have been assisted by experts. As early as 1554, Saunders J remarked in t...

Expert Psychological Testimony Empirical and Conceptual Analyses of Effects

Experimental psychologists increasingly are asked to give expert testimony in court, especially with regard to issues of eyewitness reliability. Whether or not experimental psychologists should give expert testimony on these matters is a controversial issue. The empirical literature suggests that potential jurors do not have a good understanding of the variables influencing eyewitness accuracy ...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Psychological assessment.

This course is intended to introduce you to adult psychological assessment and to acquaint you with the types of assessment devices used by psychologists. During the semester, you will learn how to administer, score, and interpret a variety of psychological tests and how to write a psychological report using a core set of assessment measures commonly used by counseling and clinical psychologist...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment