PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter module 4: Eyewitness Identification, World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, Sixth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark W Baldwin

Document Summary

Efforts to distinguish lies from sincere efforts to tell the truth. Most convincing to a jury, even though those identifications are wrong approx. 1/3 of times --> this mistake cause of 50% wrongful convictions. Those who saw stop but were asked about yield said they saw yield, et vice versa. The persistence of memory: memory is an active, constructive process. Inferences about "what must have been" guide memories of "what was" One image slightly varied from others - stop or yield (mentioned above) People can be led to believe someone had a mustache when he didn"t, that green light was red . Lawyers sometime speak in a way to make the witness go in a certain direction. Asked them to recall memory from when they were 5. Then asked them to generate a story about that child being lost. Couldn"t tell difference between which memory was real or fake.