To record and evaluate the witness accounts; to examine issues raised by laboratory research and to look at witness verbatim accounts
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What does verbatim mean?
When something is exactly the same (if the account given is word for word)
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Where did the robbery take place?
Vancouver, Canada
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What shop did the robbery take place?
A gunshop
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Who shot and killed the robber?
The shop owner
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How many witnesses were there and were interviewed by the police?
21
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How many were contacted by researchers?
20
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How many agreed to participate?
13
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The police interviewed witnesses right after the incident, what was the procedure like?
First, the witnesses had to describe the account in their own words and then the officer asked a series of questions to amplify what they had said
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How long after this did the researchers contact the witnesses?
4-5 months
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What was the interviewing procedure like with the researchers?
Exactly the same, they had to describe the event and then were asked a series of questions to add to what they had already said
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How many misleading questions were there?
2
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What was changed in the misleading questions?
The definite and indefinite article ('a' and 'the')
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What were the questions asking about?
A/The busted headlight and A/The yellow quarter panel
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Researchers divided information into 2 groups, what were they?
Action details and description details
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Description details were further split into 2 groups, they were?
Object and people descriptions
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How much information did the police find out?
649.5
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How much did the researchers find out?
1056.5
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Why might this be?
Because researchers asked more detailed questions that were no interest to the police
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Which category of information had most pieces of detail?
Action details
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How many participants were central witnesses?
7
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How many of the participants were peripheral witnesses?
6
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How did this affect results/testimonies?
There was a variablilty in what the witnesses reported
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Were participants accurate?
Yes, highly accurate even after 4-5 months
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Did the misleading questions have any effect?
Little to none
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What did they conclude?
That findings show that witness testimonies are not incorrect in their accounts as lab experiments suggest. Those who were more involved remembered more, so lab experiments do not capture this. Though they are not 100% accurate, majority is correct
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Front
What does verbatim mean?
Back
When something is exactly the same (if the account given is word for word)
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