PSY328H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Interview, Cognitive Dissonance, Eyewitness Identification
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Chapter 5 book notes: eyewitness identification and testimony. Intro: manitoba women murdered in bathroom of gas station. Man from bc identified by two witness as the murderer and they found out later it wasn"t him after they had convicted him. How memory works: encoding, gathering of information and putting it in a form that can be stored in memory. Storage: refers to holding the encoded information in the brain over time. Retrieval: accessing the stored information at a later time. Memory trace: biochemical representation of our experience i the brain , deteriorates with time, vulnerable to revision/corruption, bias can creep in at any part of this process of memory. 347 cases in which the only evidence was eyewitness testimony. 74% of these cases the defendant was convicted. 49% there was only one eye witness. Eye witness testimony is the only evidence then the judge can caution the jurors. Questioning method and line ups may boost certainty.
