Forensic Science Ch1 Vocab

Analytical Skills

• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified

Deductive Reasoning

• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified

Eyewitness

• A person who has seen someone or something and can communicate these facts
• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

Fact

• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• the ability to identify its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

Forensic

• Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions
• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

how information is processed in the brain

• informatin from our senses, what we pay attention to, perception, short-term memory, long-term memory
• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

Logical

• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts
• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

Observation

• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

Opinion

• Personal belief founded on the judgement rather than on direct experience or knowledge
• What a person perceives using his or her senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

Perception

• Interpreting information received from the senses
• A statement or assertion of information that can be verified
• deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps
• Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts