Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hypnosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Juries will rely heavily on eye witness testimonies and over estimate the accuracy of a testimony: rod lindsay conducted an experiment: staged a theft and pointed out how accurately students could identify the culprit, it was difficult for most students until it was shown his whole appearance for a number of seconds (slow, the accuracy of eyewitness identification depends on viewing conditions, mistaken eye witness identification is responsible for more wrongful convictions than all other cases combined. People forget how these factors limit and eyewitness reports: crimes occur under not the best conditions and usually happen quickly, unexpectedly, distance increases accuracy decreases, more stress people are under the worse their memory is, what people notice and pay attention to is also influenced by what they expect to see, people are poor at noticing the unexpected, we might not remember if we are unfamiliar with it, own race bias: people are better at recognizing their own race faces.