PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Identification
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There component: encoding involves gathering information and putting it in a form that can be held in memory. Storage: holding the encoded information in the brain. Retrieval: accessing and pulling out the stored information at a later time. Encoding is not perfect process, and we selective information. We sometimes lapse and crucial information does not get stored. The selected information we chose to remember may be decay over time. We may not have the necessary cues to locate the reinstate the stored memory. The persuasiveness of eyewitness testimony is only a problem if the witness is mistaken and this is more fallible than is commonly thought. Mistaken eyewitness identification leads to more wrongful convictions than any other type of evidence. Canadian guidelines for the evaluation of eyewitness evidence have drawn heavily on a case from the uk: r. v. Provide judges with instructions that ca be given to jurors to help them evaluate eyewitness testimony.
