PSYCH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Memory
17 Feb 2018
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Causes of eyewitness errors & false memories. Remembering is an active process of reconstruction. Memories are reconstructed on the basis of partial cues and the latent knowledge in the connections b/t neurons. 7) eyewitness testimony can be in error. Eyewitnesses see something complex just once and must remember it much later. 7 witnesses identified him as armed robber. Another man (ronald clouser) confessed halfway through the trial of. Few things are as persuasive to jurors as a confident eyewitness pointing a finger and saying under oath that person did the crime! . Eyewitness identification was crucial in 75% of the cases of wrongful conviction reversed by subsequent dna evidence. Jurors are influenced by a witness"s confident testimony. However, confident identifications are not necessarily more accurate! Factors other than memory of the event influence witness"s confidence (wells) In an experiment, ppl try to identify fake culprits.
