EOutline and Evaluate Factors Influencing Eye Witness Testimony The term ‘eye witness testimony’ refers to an area of research into the accuracy of memory concerning significant events‚ it is legally considered to be a reliable account of events. However‚ research into eye witness testimony has found that it can be affected by many psychological factors such as‚ anxiety and stress‚ reconstructive memory‚ selective attention and leading questions. Anxiety and stress can be associated with many
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Outline and evaluate research into the effects of anxiety on the accuracy of eye witness testimony. Eye witness testimonies are the evidence given in court or in police investigation by someone who has witnessed a crime or an accident. Eye witness testimonies are affected by a number of factors‚ but the one that I am going to focus on is anxiety. Laboratory studies and some ‘real life’ studies have generally shown impaired recall in people who have witnessed particularly distressing or anxiety
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Effect of anxiety in eye witness testimony Eyewitness Testimony refers to witnesses who are asked to give testimonies in court to particular crimes. Anxiety is amongst several other factors that can affect the accuracy of EWT. Depending on the anxiety level a witness has experienced‚ their recall level can either be more or less accurate. Loftus 1979‚ investigated the effect of anxiety on eye witness testimony accuracy. She asked participants to sit outside a laboratory where they thought they
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Eyewitness Testimony 1 RUNNING HEAD: Eyewitness Testimony Eyewitness Testimony Mark Maldonado Grantham University PS280 Psychology and the law Eyewitness Testimony 2 Eyewitness testimony can create a number of problems for police and prosecutors. Some eyewitness’s do make mistakes on identifying someone and causes that person to be wrongfully convicted. It has happened time and time again. There is an organization called the Innocence Project that stated 75% of the 218 people exonerated
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Outline and evaluate research into how anxiety affects eye witness testimony Eye witness testimonies are accounts from witnesses to a crime or accident given as evidence in a court or to the police. Research into eye witness testimonies being affected by anxiety is mixed and It is believed that eye witness testimony is most accurate when the anxiety level is somewhere in between low and high anxiety. There is evidence to support that anxiety helps eye witness testimony. Yuille and Cutshall interviewed
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Eye Witness Testimony Refers to the use of eye or ear witnesses in court or in police statements about the identity of someone who has committed a crime. Key Study into EWT – Factors that Influence EWT * Anxiety * Unpleasant emotional state where we fear that something bad is about to happen usually accompanied by physiological arousal (pumping heart) * Deffenbacher – MA of studies found considerable support for a negative correlation between anxiety and EWT meaning the more
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The Inconsistency of Eyewitness Testimonies in the Legal Setting Ashleigh Precoma Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Eyewitness testimony is an important area of research in cognitive psychology and human memory. Matsumoto‚ 2009 defined eyewitness testimony as information that an individual can provide about a crime. This includes information about the perpetrator(s) as well as information about the crime and crime scene. This information is then delivered by the bystander in a courtroom
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of false eye witness testimonies. Eye witness testimonies are the accounts given in the courtroom during a grand jury or trial by a witness at the event of a crime. False eye witness testimonies convict innocent people into prison. Out of the 80‚000 prosecutions a year that rely on eye witnesses‚ about half get convicted. Of those half‚ we are still sending 5‚000 innocent people to prison each year. There are many reasons why eye witness testimonies are unreliable. Eye witness testimonies rely on
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Joy Chase March 3 2013 RELA Mod 3 Essay: “The Story of An Eyewitness” and “Leaving Desire” - Introduction This essay is based on “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London and “Leaving Desire” by Jon Lee Anderson. “The Story of an Eyewitness” talks about how the San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the city in 1906. “Leaving Desire” talks about a victim of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. London and Anderson’s coverage of these disasters
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