Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eyewitness Testimony, Innocence Project, Eyewitness Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Drummelsmith

Document Summary

Crime & corrections lecture 4 eyewitnesses and juries. June 2003 royal clark went to trial: detective testified, some discrepancies in his reporting, especially because there was no supporting. Makes more sense: shows weight of eyewitness testimony in getting people convicted. Memory: generally defined as capacity for acquiring, retaining, and using information. Information processing model (comes from cognitive psychology: 3 components, sensory register. Crime & corrections lecture 4 eyewitnesses and juries: physical stimulation of a sensory receptor, sends a signal for potential encoding, lasts for about 1 second, either is further processed or vanishes, short-term memory store ( working memory ) Crime & corrections lecture 4 eyewitnesses and juries: sensitization: increased responding with increased exposure to stimulus, habituation: decreased responding with increased exposure to stimulus, priming, facilitated processing of a stimulus built on previous exposure. Crime & corrections lecture 4 eyewitnesses and juries: during this time (and after several hours), all participants were exposed as a group to.