Effect of age on eyewitness testimony
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- Effect of age on EWT
- Parker and Carranza 1989 compared primary school children and college students on their ability to identify an individual after a mock crime.
- Children had a higher rate of choosing but most likely to make errors
- Yarmey 1993 stopped adults and asked them to recall the physical appearance of a woman they spoke to 2 mins before
- young and middle aged adults more confident in recall but no significant difference in accuracy of recall between ages
- own age bias Anastasi and Rhodes 2006 adults shown photographs then had to identify who was in the original, each age group could identify their own age easier
- young and middle aged adults more confident in recall but no significant difference in accuracy of recall between ages
- Memon et al 2003 when the delay between incident and identification was short, no significant difference in recall between young and old, when delayed by a week older witnesses significantly less accurate
- Parker and Carranza 1989 compared primary school children and college students on their ability to identify an individual after a mock crime.
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