Assignment: Specialty Guidelines For Forensic Psychologists

your prediction of how the two ethical principles, standards, or guidelines you selected from the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct or AP-LS’s Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists might be revised in the future, why they might be revised, and what the revision might look like and why.

Recognition performance Table 1 displays recognition performance from each

experiment. In Experiment 1, recognition sensitivity was significantly higher for high-value words (A0 = .77, SD = .09) than low-value words (A0 = .72, SD = .08), t(45) = 5.28, p < .001, d = 0.79. Likewise, response bias measure B00D was significantly lower for high-value items (M = �0.23, SD = 0.56) than for low-value items (M = 0.02, SD = 0.58), indicating that participants were more likely to rate high-value items as old, t(45) = �4.53, p < .001, d = �0.67. Additionally, RTs for high-value words (M = 1866 ms, SD = 507 ms) were slightly faster than for low-value words (M = 2007 ms, SD = 530 ms), t(45) = �2.71, p = .009, d = 0.40. Participants were better able to recognize high-value words, suggesting that these

Table 1 Sensitivity and recognition bias by word-value for Experiments 1–3.

Experiment Measure Word-value

High Low

Experiment 1 A’ .77 (.09) .72 (.08) B00D -0.23 (0.56) 0.02 (0.58)

Experiment 2 Az .75 (.10) .72 (.10) B00D -0.03 (0.48) 0.05 (0.48)

Experiment 3 Az .76 (.09) .70 (.08) B00D 0.29 (0.55) 0.41 (0.52)

Standard deviations are presented in parentheses.

words were encoded more effectively. These results are consistent with the findings of Adcock et al. (2006) who demonstrated an advantage of high-value images on a delayed recognition task similar value effect with images as stimuli.

Recollection and familiarity Fig. 1 displays the proportion of high- and low-value

items receiving either a remember or know response. The proportion of items receiving a remember response was significantly greater for high-value words (M = .49, SD = .19) than for low-value words (M = .40, SD = .17), t (45) = 3.65, p = .001, d = 0.54. In contrast, the proportion of items receiving a know response was not significantly different for high-value words (M = .27, SD = .14) than for low-value words (M = .27, SD = .12), t(45) = �0.02, p = .985, d = �0.003.