PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eyewitness Identification, Canadian Judicial Council, Eyewitness Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Kaitlyn Mc Lachlan

Document Summary

Max- 3-4 pages double spaced what factors led to the wrongful convictions. Settlement decisions, media stories how much money is enough money, is money the right solution. 90 mins: course outline for types of questions. Encoding: information is put in, and can be stored for brains retrieval. Storage: information gets warehouse at either short term or long term level. Retrieval: when someone asks us questions (closed or open ended questions) Eyewitness evidence- weighted strongly and frequently results in convictions. Problem when eyewitness recall is less reliable and faulty. 307 post-conviction u. s. exonerations: 72% involved mistaken identifications, (innocence project, 2012) Eyewitness misidentification, forensic science problems, false confessions, faulty informant or jailhouse snitch testimony. The spectre of erroneous convictions based on honest and convincing, but mistaken, eyewitness identification haunts the criminal law (r. v. quercia, 1990, p. 389) 1976- how to evaluate the credibility of eyewitness testimony. Innocent people have been convicted because reliance was placed on mistaken eyewitness identification.