PSY 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Burglary, Proxemics, Environmental Psychology
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7:17 pm: the legal system, the entire legal system is a social system and therefore is subject to all fallacies and biases, before the court (social influence at work, police interrogation. Leading questions influence memory: elizabeth loftus and implanted memories, witness wants to help, time reduces accuracy. Strong emotion reduces accuracy: the longer amount of time that has passed, the less the witness will remember. Sequential: pictures/people are presented one at a time. Simultaneous: pictures/people are presented all at once. Sequential lineups are better for preventing false identifications and mistakes: pozzulo & dempsey, both adults and children were shown a videotape of a staged crime and asked to identify the criminal out of a simultaneous lineup. In the neutral condition, the participants were told that the criminal. In the biased condition, the participants were led to believe that the criminal was in the lineup: people were much more likely to make a false identification under the biased condition.
