PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eyewitness Testimony, Positive Feedback, Mychal Thompson
8 Sep 2017
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Eyewitness testimony: someone who saw the event, not especially reliable, as long as there have been courts and trials the gold standard of evidence has been testimony, we rely heavily on visual information. Innocent project estimates 73% of false convictions based on mistaken eyewitness. Id: function is to take on cases believed to be wrongly convicted and demonstrate to legal system their release, especially true when looking cross racially, eyewitness testimony must now be taken with a grain of salt. In lineup studies, longer is better (line up studies more accurate if stare at victims longer: arousal level, degree of anxiety, arousal, moderate is better than high or low, distraction. If crime involves weapon, especially gun, people have a hard time remembering the person but remember many details about the gun: distinctiveness, flashbulb memories, every generation tend to remember one particular event that happened. Influence memory: not forbidden in interviews and can influence later memory of an.
