PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Change Blindness, Negative Feedback, Facial Composite
7 Feb 2015
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Eyewitness errors: arthur lee whitfield was released from prison in 2003 served 22 years of 63-year rape sentence. Freed by dna evidence: david hansen was charged rape, kidnapping in 2005 on identification by victim from 1500 photos. Dna evidence: marlon pendleton, 1992 rape conviction based on victim identification overturned in 2006 based dna test. James lee woodard was convicted in 1980 of murder on the basis of two eyewitnesses. Freed by dna evidence in 2008 after 27 years in prison for murder: michael phillips was convicted in 1990 on the basis of rape-victim identification. Innocence project estimates 73% of false convictions bases on mistaken eyewitness identification. Memory as an adaptation: we don"t have to remember everything, no memory before ~2 years of age, no information about repeated events, memory is a reconstruction from pieces, memory need not be 100% accurate. If you do something bad more beneficial to misremember it so your guilt/involvement was reduced.
