PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Penrod, Franz Liszt, Note-Taking
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History of forensic psychology: earliest research investigated eyewitness memory. In australia, it is not as common as in the us for academic psychologists to appear in court. Lecture 2 crime and investigations witnesses i: eyewitness testimony is commonly used as evidence in court and is one of the most persuasive forms of evidence for juries. Id evidence can be dangerous it is very convincing, research shows us that identification evidence is often inaccurate, false ids have 2 negative consequences: guilty person goes free. Evidence of inaccurate ids: surveyed justice officials. Surveyed us justice officials reported that over 70% thought that erroneous convictions occurred in less than 1% of the cases (huff 1987: approximately 3 million arrests for serious crimes/year in us, approximately 50% result in conviction. It is more useful to note that false ids were often associated with very high witness confidence (wells, 1993: problems:
