PSC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ingroups And Outgroups, Flashbulb Memory, Contact Hypothesis
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Psc 153 lecture 7 eyewitness identification and testimony. Eyewitness testimony one of the most influential pieces of evidence that can be brought to a trial. Mock juror data (kassin and neumann 1997) Mock trials with weak circumstantial evidence plus either confession or eyewitness testimony. Unfortunately eyewitness testimony is not as reliable as many people assume. 8,000 wrongful convictions per year in the us. As of october 2016, 344 individuals exonerated through dna testing thanks to the. Eyewitness misidentification was involved in 73% of these cases. Memory mental processes that enable us to retain and use information over time. Encoding transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory. Storage retaining previously encoded information in memory so that it can be used at a later time. Retrieval recovering from memory information that has been previously encoded and stored. Stage model of memory memory consists of three stages through which information is transferred.
