PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Police Lineup, Nanny
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110 cases of male inmates whose conviction was overturned by dna-evidence: of those 2/3 were identified by eyewitnesses; 10% were on death row (2 were rescued just in time); Averaged 10. 5 years behind bars (1-22 years); average age 28; 2/3 black or hispanic; 1/3 have received compensation. Approximately 48% of all wrongful convictions are due to misidentification. Memory isn"t like a videotape; the intervening information can be affective. Misinformation effect: if you give a person wrong information between when they encode the memory and then retrieve it; subtle wording in questioning can affect recall (was the window broken when the car smashed/hit the light poll?) Ronald cotton vs. bobby poole (witness jennifer thompson was wrong); 60 minutes video clip. Implanting false memory is easy (for example, tell us to memorize a list with all sleep related words, and more than likely we"ll remember the word sleep being in the list even though it wasn"t actually there)
