PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demyship, Pediatrics, Anatomically Correct Doll
24 Dec 2015
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Memory is heavily relied on in a lot of legal eyewitness cases . Legal system implicitly (or explicitly) put too much weight/confidence in what the person remembers. There was a real reluctance to allow jurors to take notes . Anything that is personally relevant to you becomes something you focus on and remember clearly (no shit) Everyone is susceptible to the memory biases memory biases are more likely and problematic especially with respect to sexual abuse. St thomas, amish community - a group of children (aged 6-13) in a family accusing an aunt (now middle-aged) of sexual abuse. She said if all the children are saying it happened, maybe something happened that i don"t remember . Lawyer was very respectful of the children she was not trying to break them down, she was just trying to suggest that maybe they were wrong.
