PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: False Memory Syndrome, Dependent And Independent Variables, Proxemics
19 Apr 2018
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Applied social psychology: the legal system (forensic psychology) The entire legal system is a social system and therefore is subject to all fallacies and biases. Leading questions influence memory (loftus and implanted memories) Sequential : witness looks at one suspect at a time. Simultaneous : witness looks at all suspects simultaneously. You compare them all to each other and may falsely identify. Children and adults watch video of staged crime where purse is stolen. Neutral instructions: criminal may or may not be in photos . When given neutral instructions, not one child falsely identified a criminal. Biased instructions: the criminal is in the lineup . Both children and adults were more likely to identify innocent persons falsely when given biased instructions. The guilty party was not in the lineup. Instructions to witness needs to be neutral. Surprisingly, when conditions are right, innocent people will confess to. Saul kassin: false confession doing something they did not do.
