THE INVESTIGATIVE EVENT

Fundamentally the psychological investigative event constitutes the interbehavior of the investigator with a behavior segment or psychological event. Just as the event investigated is conditioned by the interbehavioral history of the organism and object, so the investigator is more or less influenced by his antecedent intellectual background. This interaction of the investigator and the crude event is represented by the double headed arrow, an interaction which is further influenced by other factors in a field such as the general conditions prevailing in the investigative milieu as well as by MM, the particular instruments and techniques of investigation.