PSY328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eyewitness Identification, Innocence Project, Miscarriage Of Justice
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Psychology and the law lecture 4 eye witness. An eye witness that is uncertain can become certain over time, memory is malleable. It is problem that since they police officers knew before asking the victim they could have unconsciously influenced suspect. Most crucial change needed is double blind administration officer is not aware of who is the suspect in the case and that the victim knows that officer is unaware of who the suspect is: memory: Memory is not like a video recorder. 3 central processing: encoding (how we gather information about experience, and how we experience the event), storage (process of holding encoded information in your memory), retrieval ( accessing stored memories). Also impossible to store every information, memory for things fade particularly peripheral information over central. How an eyewitness is asked to retrieve information can have dramatic effect on how one retrieves such information: me(cid:373)ory co(cid:374)t"d.
