classes. Most recently‚ I have conducted research on the validity of eyewitness testimonies and the cognitive psychology behind it. I also had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Belli‚ a professor at UNL that focuses most of his research on factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness testimonies such as the misinformation effect and recovered memory. When considering all the problems that are associated with human memory it is understandably flawed‚ but
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Outline and evaluate the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony AO1 AO2 Yerkes Dodson law – states that there is an optimum level of anxiety for accurate eyewitness testimony. I.e. People who are not at all stressed‚ and people who are very stressed will be less accurate eyewitnesses that those who are under a moderate amount of stress. Loftus carried out a study of the ‘Weapon effect’. She set up two conditions of the experiment. In both conditions‚ participants heard a discussion in the
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Dec 1862; Eyewitness Testimony of Union Physician Louis Steiner‚ Dr. Lewis Steiner‚ Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission‚ observed General Stonewall Jackson’s occupation of Frederick‚ Maryland‚ in 1862. He wrote: Over 3‚000 Negroes must be included in this number of Confederate troops). These were clad in all kinds of uniforms‚ not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms‚ but in coats with Southern buttons‚ State buttons‚ etc. Most of the Negroes had arms‚ rifles‚
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Memory and formatting d. Memory is not a recorder!!! Consider this statement and citing two sources‚ explain two reasons why eye witness testimonies are considered unreliable. Eyewitness testimony is an important area of research in cognitive psychology and human memory. According to Saul Mcleod‚ eyewitness testimony is a legal term that refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed. For example they may be required to give a description at a trial of a robbery or a road
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Eyewitness testimony Eyewitness testimony can play a big part in criminal court cases. Whether or not a person is convicted of a crime can come down to the reliability of an eyewitness and how confidently he or she conveys testimony to a jury. The problem is these eyewitness accounts aren’t always accurate. The Innocence Project is a non-profit team of attorneys and law students that re-examines questionable murder convictions with the hope of using DNA evidence to overturn the sentences of defendents
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From Fraser’s talking‚ I strongly agree his concern about the eyewitness identification testimony. I agree with Fraser that eyewitness testimonies are not reliable in some cases because “eyewitness testimony can be critiqued on several grounds‚ having impaired perception‚ having impaired memory‚ having inconsistent testimony‚ having bias or prejudice‚ and not having a reputation for telling the truth.” Even eyewitness testimony from honest people can sent innocent people in jail. Therefore‚ even
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The fallibility of Eyewitness Identification and Testimony INTRODUCTION: Eyewitness identification and testimonies are relied on heavily by the criminal justice system to help with investigation and prosecution of crimes and criminals. Due to the increase in the use of eyewitness identification psychologist began studying the results more efficiently to gain a clearer understanding of the risks it holds.. A scientific literature on this specific topic was created and highlighted the issues that
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As we have learned in our studies‚ our memories easily become contaminated by things like‚ post-event misinformation‚ retroactive interference‚ errors in source monitoring‚ not to mention things like the stress of the event‚ which can also influence our memories (Matlin‚ 2012). If fact the act of recalling an event is more like trying to put together a puzzle with missing pieces‚ than simple reviewing a video. And when we take into account that “eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing
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and murder of the perpetrate which is more accurate in selecting the perpetrator. "Mistakes eyewitness identification has gone for 30 years now Identifying the innocent man up to life in prison‚ while the real perpetrator gets away like in U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Neil v. Bigger and Manson v. Brathwaite" (Criminal Evidence Thomas J. Gardner pg. 319) We need a better eyewitness the problem is the Memory. When rape accure the defant is
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prisoners were ordered to assist in the killing of their own people. Sonderkommandos were a major part of this eradication. A sonderkommando aided in the disposal of the corpses that were victims to the gas chambers. Through the vivid testimony by Filip Muller‚ “Eyewitness Auschwitz” allows the reader to fully understand the difficulties and graphic situations that occurred daily at Auschwitz. Filip Muller was born on January 3‚ 1922 in Sered‚ Czechoslovakia. In 1942 at the age of 20‚ he was deported
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