01:830:321 Study Guide - Gorilla Suit, Procedural Justice, Elizabeth Loftus
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Details the case of randall adams and david harris and eyewitness (mis)identification. Eyewitness testimony: the american legal system assigns a great deal of significance to eyewitness testimony granting it greater probative value than circumstantial evidence. In a study by lindsay et al. (1981), ss witness a theft in which the thief was either very, moderately, or not very difficult to identify in a lineup, based on the amount of visual information about him presented. Thus, it seems that people aren"t adept at noticing the unexpected: finally, the information that we take in is influenced by familiarity with it; unfamiliar things are more difficult to recognize than familiar things. In one study, she showed students 30 slides depicting different states of a car accident; different slides were shown to different groups of students (for example, one group saw a stop sign and another a yield sign.
