CRIM 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyewitness Memory, Sweatpants, Facial Composite
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Explain the eyewitness memory accuracy effects of relevant system variables including questioning, sketches, and the use of showups. Appraise a lineup for its inherent fairness and functional size. Express the advantages of a double-blind lineup procedure. Describe how confidence malleability might occur through system variables. Analyze the characteristics of simultaneous and sequential lineups. Interpret the misidentification of ronald cotton in the context of system variables. Defend your position on whether simultaneous lineups or sequential lineups should be utilized by those in law enforcement. [some stuff discussed in class not on here] observe event police say this is a good one when people saw this is a good one people actually picked that. Crash scene showed in class = what was this all about. Asked some what color dog was but no dog. Research shows wording of question really matters. Say car was going significantly slower then when asked how fast it was going when it smashed into other car .
