Key Issue - Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?
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- Created on: 02-01-18 21:48
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- Key Issue - Is Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?
- Describe the issue
- Eye witness- Someone who sees a crime committed
- They are asked to testify in court and are usually the deciding factor is someone is found innocent or guilty
- If the information they give is unreliable then people could be found guilty to crimes they didn't commit
- Multi Store Model
- Long-term is a life long Store
- HM remembered everything about his past life
- If the information was not rehearsed it'll never make it to the Long-term
- Long-term is a life long Store
- Working Memory Model
- Once the event have been processed in the VSS it can be replayed in the visual cache
- KF, Spatial memory was completely intact after the accident left him with a digit span of one
- Only focuses in depth on the short-term
- We don't know the capacity of the Long-term
- Once the event have been processed in the VSS it can be replayed in the visual cache
- Reconstructive Memory
- Schemas
- If we fill in information about events using our experiences then the event can be altered without use realizing
- Picking Cotton
- The War of the Ghosts
- Schemas
- Loftus and Palmer
- Participants were much more accurate when emtional
- Eye witnesses are likely to be emotional when experiencing a crime
- Lab experiment- Low ecological validity
- The "facts" changed when the verb was changed
- Police interviews must follow the cognitive interview
- Questions asked within court roms could be influential
- Participants were much more accurate when emtional
- Describe the issue
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