ECE1065 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long-Term Memory, Mental Chronometry
23 Mar 2016
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Sometimes a witnesses accuracy is not accurate not because they choose to give a false statement, but that is what they believe happened. Physical evidence has a higher initial evidencial value. Eye witness can prove all of the facts in issue, causing a prima facie case. Officers should be aware of a confident witness. Confident witness confidence does not ensure accuracy, the person may intentionally lie, or be unintentionally inaccurate. Memory reconstruction contains facts, inferences, and assumptions. The witness will reconstruct the story by using the facts and inferences to assume things. Officers may determine evidence reconstruction, because it may cause damage to the case: sensory input (acquisition) Using the 5 senses, we see it, recall it, but cannot remember it: memory (retention) Short term memory & long term memory, if we do not do something with our short term memory it will disappear (example.
