Analysis of the System and Estimator Variables in the Cotton Case FPSY-2001-1 Walden University 5/06/2014 There are two variables associated with the misidentification of one by an eyewitness‚ estimator variables or “factors that relate to the circumstances under which witnessing takes place”‚ and system variables in which the variables “include overt or subtle suggestive techniques cops use to influence a witness to pick a particular suspect” ("Mistaken Identification in California
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Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court? Over the past ten years‚ more research has been done involving children’s testimony than that of all the prior decades combined. Ceci & Bruck (93) have cited four reasons for this : - The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as testimony‚ - Social research is more commonly being applied to the issues of children’s rights‚ - More research into adult suggestibility in accordance with reason naturally leads to more
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the testimony of a 5 year old child who accuses an adult of serious sexual abuse. It’s very easy to look at children’s testimony from a psychologist or a researcher’s perspective‚ but how would we respond if we were faced with a situation where a 5 year old child is accusing an adult of serious sexual abuse? Would we be quick to dismiss the strong accusation or would we examine the possibility of this event. In this essay evidence for and against the reliability of children’s testimony is evaluated
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Long Term Memory Psychologists study memory because it is important to understand how a person remembers‚ how they forget‚ and whether memory is reliable source of past information; this research is particularly important in the case of eyewitness testimonies. Memory is the process whereby a person holds on to information they have experienced. Psychologists categorise memory into 3 processes; encoding (making a memory trace)‚ storage and retrieval. Forgetting is a breakdown in one of the 3 processes
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perception Ps in social psych research face tasks similar to those of… Eyewitnesses to a crime Suspects in an interrogation Jurors in a trial (attributions?) Eyewitness Accuracy Witnessing a crime and identifying perpetrator not easy (based on quick exposure to person) Consider this example… 3 Correct Answer? Eyewitness testimony very persuasive‚ but 80% of wrongful convictions due‚ in part‚ to mistaken IDs (identifications) DNA tests/exonerations Social psych methods help us examine why
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Eyewitness memory is a very delicate and interesting thing. An individual that is an eyewitness has a first-hand account of an event that occurred. However‚ when they try to remember and give an account of the event no one knows whether it is true or not because‚ other eyewitnesses may have a completely different memory of the event. Even though these individuals may have been standing right beside each other they combine details from past memories with the current event. Combining these details
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errors in eyewitness testimony. Additionally‚ for many years researchers have also suspected that forensic interview methods highly influence eyewitness testimonies which are a major cause of inaccuracies. Eyewitnesses could be led to give reports of objects of events they did not actually experience. This debate about why the misinformation effect takes place has challenged dominant views in regards to the validity of memory and had raised concerns about the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Furthermore
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Corinthians 15:8‚ Paul was convinced that Jesus was who He said He was when Jesus Christ appeared to him at the time of his conversion on the road to Damascus. 5. Why do you suppose no historian‚ no eyewitness‚ no antagonist has recorded having seen the body of Christ after his death? No historian‚ eyewitness‚ or antagonist has recorded having seen the body of Christians after his death because they were no “physical” body to be
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The historical value of speeches in Thucydides In writing his history as a whole‚ it is fair to say that Thucydides has always been praised for his relative historical accuracy‚ be that due to his actual presence at events‚ his use of eyewitness testimony or his noted checking of facts. In style Thucydides kept his narrative sections rather impersonal thereby allowing the story to unfold itself. However‚ to then lay bare what stood behind the narrative‚ the moral possibilities‚ the mistakes
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their offences. As Ainsworth (2001) puts it‚ “profiling generally refers to the process of using all the available information about a crime‚ a crime scene‚ and a victim in order to compose a profile of the (as yet) unknown perpetrator.” Eye witness testimony refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed. They may be required to give a description at a trial of the event they witnessed; this will include identification of perpetrators‚ details of the crime scene and so on. There
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