PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter unit 5: Cognitive Interview, Recognition Memory, Long-Term Memory
16 Mar 2015
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4500 wrongful convictions each year, about a dozen executed each year. 3 general: recall of the event, recall of the perpetrator, recognition of the perpetrator. Line up: set of people presented to the witness, who in turn must identify the perpetrator if he or she is present, witness" recognition response can be examined for the following. Types of errors made extract from the witness a complete and accurate report of what happened. Mixing visual and auditory questions has been found to decrease recall by approx. Memory conformity: when what one witness reports influences what another witness reports. Witness ma change his or her report to make is consistent: police officer may incorporate an erroneous detail from a previous witness" interview. Witness goes back in time and re experiences the original event. Witness imagines that he or she is watching an imaginary television screen with the events being played as they were witnessed.
