PSYC 268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Language Shift, Zeitgeist, Peer Pressure
1 Oct 2016
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Often in theses cases there is no corroborative evidence. Young children often testify as unsworn witness d. ii. 1. Children under 14 still testify as unsworn witness in crim court tdy d. iii. Attitude: pervasive belief that the evidence of children was inherently unreliable: late 1980, number of children entering crim court as witnesses increased dramatically a. i. a. ii. a. iii. A wider admissibility of expert psychological testimony on issues of eyewitnesses accuracy. The sociopolitical zeitgeist of the late 1960s that encouraged social scientists to focus more on the application of their research: the need for applied research was acute when it could help vulnerable members of society. The sudden awareness of the prevalence of crimes against children a. iv. The changes in law that made it possible of children to be witnesses in crim court. Inviting a child to play, pretend or speculate false memory: children are usually more suggestible than adults, except d. i. d. ii. Hard for younger children to identify the relationship between items.
