Cognitive Key Question

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  • Cognitive Key Question
    • State
      • Are eyewitness testimony accounts always accurate?
    • Describe
      • An eyewitness testimony is when you inquire from someone that was at the scene of the crime on what happened.
      • They are used to gather information and are used as evidence in trials for references to what occurred.
      • If the testimony is wrong someone innocent may be placed in prison and wrongly convicted of a crime they did not commit.
      • Therefore, it is important that we know how accurate they are by having multiple testimonys.
    • Explain
      • MSM
        • Rehearsal into LTM due to trauma.
          • Dream about the event.
          • Interrogations - forced to rehearse what happened.
          • Might rehearse or block the memory.
        • Sensory memory - you need to pay attention to remebersomething in STM.
          • Distractions such as other people's reactions to gage the situation - not paying full attention to the situation.
          • It might not be something you see everyday and you might miss a few things or pay extra attention to it.
      • WMM
        • Central executive has limited capacity - expands on STM
          • This means the witness can only focus on one thing at a time - lots of things happening in a crime scene.
          • The witness may not be focusing on the scene and trying to escape any potential danger.
        • Phonological loop holds limited number of verbal info for a few seconds.
        • Visuospatial Sketchpad temporarily holds and manipulates visual and spacial info (position/location).
          • Capacity is 3 - 4 items meaning there is a limit to how much the witness can take in.
      • Recon Mem
        • The witness may have 'filled in gaps' when they could not remember things.
          • Schemes use previous experiences such as interviews of others or other stories that could have been told by family or see a past crime or have watched crime on TV or read about it.
          • The story will get shorter each time as each time they say it they forget something or their memory changes to become more rational and familiar to what they know or have experienced.
            • Schemes use previous experiences such as interviews of others or other stories that could have been told by family or see a past crime or have watched crime on TV or read about it.

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