CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Identification, Encoding Specificity Principle

• School: Edith Cowan University
• Department: CRI
• Course: CRI1103
• Professor: James

Document Summary

Last week: eyewitness testimony, reconstructive nature of memory, attributional biases, estimator and system variables, age, sex, race, illumination, duration, delay and emotional arousal, post-event information, self-administered cognitive interview, co-witnesss discussion exercise. This week: getting it right: eyewitness id, system variables, descriptive evidence and police interview techniques. Identification evidence and identification parades: scott frazer talk, the role of expectation. System variables: factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and are under the control of the criminal justice system, occur after the incident and impact on the storage and retrieval stages of memory. E. g: the capacity of investigatory procedures used by the criminal justice system to gather accurate descriptive and identification evidence, police interview techniques. Interviewing witnesses provides the opportunity to gather important information about the incident: but, it is possible to contaminate witnesses" memories. Police: post-event information, verbal overshadowing, memory transference.