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Source: www.futurelearn.com
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Starts on March 21, 2016
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Ends on March 29, 2016
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Level : Introductory
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Psychology
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Language : English
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Free certificate
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24 hours in total
About the content
Discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
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Explore how your own mind works, and discover how the limitations of the human brain can lead to major miscarriages of justice. Despite advances in forensic science, eyewitness testimony remains a critical component of criminal investigations. Psychological research has revealed the dangers of relying on evidence gained from an eyewitness and also how careful the police need to be when questioning witnesses. Using videos of real witnesses and from cameras that go behind the scenes of a police investigation, this course explores the psychology of eyewitness testimony. You will get the chance to test your own cognitive skills and to see whether your powers of investigation are as good as a crack squad of police officers, as you try to solve a crime using nothing but evidence from eyewitnesses. You can use the hashtag #FLforensic16 to join and contribute to Twitter conversations about this course.
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- Graham Pike
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FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
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