PSYC3315 Lecture 7: PSYC3315, lecture 7
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Misinformation needs to be plausible- misinformation can be reduced if credibility or believability is questioned- source needs to be credible. Encoding specificity- encourage witnesses to reinstate context- recall everything no matter how trivial- this may cue something really important. Assoc network- repeated recall attempts from diff perspectives, recall events in varied order. George & clifford found ci elicits five times as much information as conventional follow up interview. Problems with ci- takes long time, needs extensive training, only effective with cooperative witness. Power of eyewitness identification- loftus 1979 - live human pointing at the defendant- saying that"s the one . As many as 8500 wrongful convictions in us every year, up to half of them resulting from faulty eyewitness accounts- loftus 1986. 1- warm witnesses that perpetrator may not be present. 2- present blank line up first (all foils) 3- person conducting lineup should not be aware of suspects identity.
