EWT - Applying Research
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- Created on: 30-12-15 00:13
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- Eye Witness Testimony - Applying Research
- Cognitive interview developed to ensure narrative style interview by police
- Recall everything from different perspectives and orders, recreate context
- Context/State cued recall aided by recreation of scenes
- Yuille and Cutshall showed police can be more confident in EWT even after passing of time
- Weapons in scenes can affect recall
- Police should not use verbs which imply direction
- Open questions should be used
- Certain words may trigger a schema that reconstructs memory
- Judges should be aware eyewitnesses may not be accurate
- Cognitive interview developed to ensure narrative style interview by police
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