Unit 1: Observations and Evidence

"On Being Certain" - Challenger Study Passage

• • "On Being Certain" Questions

PPT - Chapter 1, Observations

• • Awareness test video

  • Attention Test

  • Color changing card trick

  • Commercial Video: Get a Mac - Party Is Over

  • Commercial observation Qs

Rethinking Thinking TedEd (Truth vs. perception vs. reality)

How Reliable is Your Memory? (Elizabeth Loftus)

CSI Effect USA TODAY

• • CSI Effect USA Today Article Question

  • NPR CSI Effect Feb 2011 (Q#3)

  • http://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133497696/is-the-csi-effect-influencing-courtrooms

  • "CSI Effect Theory" videos (extra if you're interested)

  • CSI Effect Videos and Resources

  • Justice Denied: Dennis Maher wrongfully convicted (Aug, 2015)

Case Studies

• How to do case studies

• Case #1 and 2: MacDonald and Winger

PPT: Ch. 2 Notes

• Notes Sheet

• First part: Types of Evidence

• Second part: Processing a crime scene

Lab #1: Types of Evidence

• PowerPoint PDF

PPT - Interrogations

• Interrogations Notes Sheet

PPT - False Confessions Notes

• False Confessions Notes Sheet

• This American Life Podcast Episode 507 - "Confessions"

Unit 1 Test Review (Chapter 1-2, Case studies)

Not used in 2024-25

• Anatomy of a Bad Confession 

• "Jaycee Dugard Looks Like the Image Forensic Artists Created to Help Find Her" 
• Detective Fusco Composite Sketch Artist (2:15) 
• Dove Hires a Forensic Sketch Artist to Draw Women as They See Themselves (6:36) 
• Police Sketch Artist Draws Celebrities Based on Description Only (3:42)
• Age progression technology to find missing kids: Does it work? (Today Show, 5 min)