CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Eyewitness Testimony, Feather Duster, Flashbulb Memory

• School: Edith Cowan University
• Department: CRI
• Course: CRI1103
• Professor: James

Document Summary

Last week: unit plan, unit texts, study schedule, assessments, learning catalytics, pilot, blackboard, announcements, classes, readings, assessments, discussion board, essay information, marking rubric, title, key authors, structure, format guidelines, cover sheet. This week: eyewitness testimony, reconstructive nature of memory, attributional biases, estimator and system variables, age, sex, race, illumination, duration, delay and emotional arousal, post-event information, self-administered cognitive interview, co-witness discussion exercise. Eyewitness testimony: eyewitness testimony is extremely persuasive, eyewitness testimony is extremely unreliable. Double failure: guilty person free to commit further crimes. Reliability: the ability of a witness to consistently identify the person of interest as the perpetrator of the crime. Validity: the ability of a witness to make an identification on the basis of their memory of the perpetrator of the crime. Schemas: cognitive systems that help organise and make sense of information. Bartlett (1932: presented english participants with a variety of materials from different cultures.