CAS PS 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blind Experiment, Connotation, Eyewitness Testimony
5 Oct 2018
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The eyewitness who saw would obviously be stressed: violence affects memory. You focus on the violence as opposed to the details of the person initiating the attack: police better then civilian at identifying violent crimes, stress facilitates learning only when its mild. Factors that affect retention: passage of time: the greater the amount of time, the greater the memory loss. Info came up that showed that he has never been a guard there. They reversed his conviction and let him come back to. America: intervening events of experience, classic example from police work: you see a photo of someone that looks like the person you remembered. Then if you pick that incorrect photo out then the memory of the photo and the actual person fuses together. Two becomes one: description changes when memories fuse together, source confusion- read a newspaper see tv heard someone talking etc. you just jumble it all together.
