PSYC 3310 Lecture 5: Psychology and Law Chapters 5. exam 2 prep
17 Aug 2015
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December 23, 1981, 8:45 pm, 16 year old barbara stoppel strangled to death in a washroom at a coffee shop she worked at by a man. From eyewitness information police arrested a man who came from british columbia named thomas sophonow. Eyewitness misidentification was the reason sophonow was wrongfully convicted, spent 4 years in jail. Asked if they seen guy wearing cowboy hat and in pics he is only one wearing hat. Retired supreme court justice peter cory review the investigations and determined the mistakes that took place. This picture was published again and again in media which could have made lorraine. Janower more confident in her decision as well. John doerksen was affected by post-event information, which is seeing sophonow several times, which led from no identification to identification. Memory involves three processes encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding gathering information and putting it in a form that can be held in memory.
