Forensic Psychology - Week 10

Vocabulary flashcards from lecture notes on Behavioral Insights and Forensic Psychology

Behavioural Insights (BI)

A field that uses an inductive approach to policy making that combines insights from psychology, cognitive science, and social science with empirically-tested results to discover how humans actually make choices.

OECD

An international organisation whose core aim to set international standards and support countries to forge a path towards stronger, fairer and cleaner societies

BETA

The Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet’s Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government

Nudge

Any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behaviour in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives

Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) aims

Make public services more cost-effective & easier for citizens to use; Improve outcomes by introducing a more realistic model of human behaviour to policy; Enable people to make ‘better choices for themselves

EAST Framework

Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely; Four Simple Ways to Apply Behavioural Insights

Solving a problem (H. Simon)

Representing a problem so as to make the solution transparent.

System 1

Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, unconscious decision making.

System 2

Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious decision making.

FACS

The New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services; Only deal directly with cases where there is a Risk of Significant Harm (ROSH).