PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Memory, Subtle Body

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: McLachlan

Document Summary

Forms a very critical part of the criminal justice system. They can be key pieces of evidence. Weight might be more in a serious crime or when there is little other evidence. Memory recap: the process from sensory to memory. Encoding: the information is input and shift into information that can be stored (storage) and later used for retrieval. Retrieval: when someone asks us questions about it. There can be errors at all stages of the processes. For good relia(cid:271)le e(cid:374)(cid:272)odi(cid:374)g, (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e to pa(cid:455) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374). Many ways eye witness makes it into the court room. Testimony can be crucial in a conviction. One of the most compelling, and frequently results in conviction. Loftus (1984): cases where the only evidence was eye witness and 79% resulted in conviction. It becomes a problem when there are errors and the evidence is unreliable.