CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Donald Thomson, Elizabeth Loftus, False Memory
CRI1105 Week 4 Notes
Identification parades:
Simultaneous – majority miss nearly 50, over 35 people chose suspect 7 and where correct.
Sequential – nearly 45 had miss and nearly 35 people chose the correct suspect.
The role of expectation:
Hooded men carrying sawn off shot guns overpowered bank staff and escaped with about $21,000 cash
Part of the incident was capture on the banks security cameras
Usually: an eyewitness is asked at some later stage by reference wo what they observed to identify the
perpetrator.
The Queen v. Theos:
Notice of appeal:
The identification of the accused by two witnesses from the photographs should not have been admitted to
evidence.
Expressed concerns:
Witnesses were led to believe that the accused was the person in the photographs
Witnesses were shown single photographs of the accused
The face was not visible
The clothing and physical characteristics where similar to Peter Theos
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This week
Donald Thomson
Lonnie Erby
Emotional arousal part II
Researching the misinformation effect
Researching false memory
False and recovered memories
Elizabeth Loftus talk
Donald Thomson
1976, arrested by police, victim description matched perfectly
What caused the rape victim to misidentify Donald Thomson as a rapist?
She was watching TV misinterpreted information
Source misattribution theory, source monitoring errors
Lonnie Erby
1985, young man raped three teenage girls in three separate incidents, two additional teenage girls managed to
escape, three days after investigators reported that a young man was peering through the bed room window,
police search the nearby area and found Lonnie Erby, he was arrested, identified by all girls and was convicted.
Emotional arousal part II
Weapon focus effect
People threatened with a weapon tend to attend to it more than other aspects of the events
People with and without a spider phobia
Yerkes-Dodson law
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Document Summary
Simultaneous majority miss nearly 50, over 35 people chose suspect 7 and where correct. Sequential nearly 45 had miss and nearly 35 people chose the correct suspect. Hooded men carrying sawn off shot guns overpowered bank staff and escaped with about ,000 cash. Part of the incident was capture on the banks security cameras. Usually: an eyewitness is asked at some later stage by reference wo what they observed to identify the perpetrator. The identification of the accused by two witnesses from the photographs should not have been admitted to evidence. Witnesses were led to believe that the accused was the person in the photographs. Witnesses were shown single photographs of the accused. The clothing and physical characteristics where similar to peter theos. 1976, arrested by police, victim description matched perfectly. People threatened with a weapon tend to attend to it more than other aspects of the events. As stress increases so does memory up to a point.
