PSYC 268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypnosis, Eyewitness Identification, Innocence Project
21 Mar 2016
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Storage: informaion is subject to reconstrucive memory where their brain alters the informaion. Innocence project research: shows: 38% idenify the same wrong innocent person. There is not enough empirical support for the superiority of live line ups. Lotus study: in a classic study in 1976 lotus presented three groups of mock jurors with evidence from a criminal case. Second group heard the circumstanial evidence plus eyewitness ideniicaion evidence. The third group heard the circumstanial evidence, the eyewitness ideniicaion evidence, as well as evidence regarding the fact that the eyewitness had very poor eyesight and was not wearing glasses on the day of the crime. So even if eyewitness"s are not credible, they sill put a lot of weight on eyewitness"s. Recall of the event: open ended recall/free narraive: witnesses are asked to recount what they witness. Vs direct quesion recall: witnesses are asked speciic quesion about. Gender and race are not beter or worse.
