Stanely Milgram was a social phycologist who conducted an experiment in 1963 about nonviolent people being capable of hurting others due to obeying the authority under pressure despite their feeling of remorse. The way the experiment received progression was by having people play the role of a teacher and a learner. The teacher obeys the authority and the learner had to memorize a certain amount of words. If the learner failed to the duty, he would received a punishment of a dose of high voltage shock. Although the purpose of the experiment was to test how the learner was capable of learning, it to was to test the capability of the teacher to continue the experiment whether or not they felt guilt.…
Method The participants were 211 UTEP students enrolled in Psychology 3101. Participation was requested of the students to obtain data in order to write the final paper for this PSYC 3101 class. The participants were also asked to take notes during the experiment. There was no participants excluded from the study.…
As Holloway pointed out, eyewitness testimony plays a significant role in sending innocent people to prison (Holloway, 2015). Yet, I feel that she only vaguely covered the topic. Because eyewitness testimony is a major component of the American criminal justice system, Holloway should have better emphasized the faultiness of eyewitness…
In the beginning of the experiment, there were 18 participants. The participants were college students at the College of Wooster. The 18 participants were also enrolled in a 300 level Psychology course, Learning and Behaviour, where this experiment took place. One participant’s results were thrown out because she joined the experimenter in the third and final trial. At the end of all three trails, only 17 participant’s results were collected.…
In today’s world technology is readily available to just about everyone. Most people have a phone of some form and most of those phones have the ability to take both pictures and videos. As more accusations are thrown around it is becoming more and more normal to have individuals record others when they are being detained or arrested by police officers. This tactic is becoming increasingly necessary to protect both sides and allows little to no room for misinterpretation. One would think that if officers were encouraged to use recording devices than the stipulations would be equal for the opposing party.…
Eyewitness misidentification has been the predominant cause of erroneous convictions. A study by the Innocence Project shows that it plays a role in 72% of justice miscarriages. However, eyewitness testimony is considered compelling evidence and has been the foundation upon which many cases have been brought to trial. Factors like weapon focus effect, forgetting curve, cross racial identification, communication with witness after identification and memory contamination, contribute to eye witness misidentification. Some of these factors are interestingly depicted in Picking Cotton.…
In his ted talk Scott Fraser “Why eyewitnesses get it wrong” he explains why eyewitnesses…
Children do not have the same cognitive ability as adults – they have issues with retention and correctly remembering information. While research does show these issues exist, it also shows that they are only a major concern for eyewitness testimony made by youths. Research has also shown that the use of suggestive interrogation tactics such as long, complex sentences, double negatives, and forced choice questions decrease the reliability of a child’s testimony. Other common suggestive investigative tactics such as isolation, minimization, and confrontation can also decrease the reliability of juvenile testimony. Children are also influenced by authority figures – they have a desire to please officers and are affected by negative feedback.…
The accuracy of their testimony is sometimes called into question, especially if a witness says they saw the…
In order to conduct our experiment, our group used a site called “Poll Everywhere.” Poll Everywhere is an application for audience participation. In a classroom setting, it is an easy way to gather live responses. Teachers have the ability to display questions on a two-way screen. Once students put their answers in on the device they are using, the polls update seconds after, and the results can be displayed on the presenting screen.…
In conclusion, both an eyewitness and the reasonable person provide standards in the court of law that are used in determining whether to convict a suspect, as demonstrated by the eyewitness in the State v. Hendersen (2011) case. Unfortunately, both standards are based upon subjective perception. For example, human error in memory processing may decrease the accuracy in an eyewitness testimony. Research should be done on individual interpretation as it relates to an eyewitness or the reasonable person in order to prevent any wrongful…
Two major issues in long-term memory for children are increased suggestibility and errors in source monitoring. This means that they can take false information into their brain and keep that as an actual memory and they can have problems remembering the source of where they learned a piece of information. More and more studies have been conducted investigating the validity of children’s eyewitness testimony and strategies for improving their accuracy. Several studies have been conducted on the long-term memory effects of eye closure on children’s eyewitness testimony. Children can be informative witnesses, but the quality of information they provide is influenced by factors such as the kind of retrieval mechanisms engaged and the quality of communication between the child witness and the adult interviewer.…
Eyewitnesses are humans, who are bound to make mistakes, and are prone to the misinformation effect. The old man had heard the young man threatened his father to kill him and the woman had witnessed the young…
In a study done by Steven D. Penrod and Brian L. Cutler, eyewitness identification was tested to find the most reliable effects on eyewitness performance. The studies that they performed indicated that jurors ' evaluations of identification evidence are heavily influenced by the confidence of the eyewitness. Unfortunately, in this case and in many other cases, the confidence of the eyewitness did not matter because he still identified the wrong man. The correlation between confidence and accurate eyewitness identification is weak (Penrod & Cutler, 1989). Because the victim’s husband was so confident in his identification, the cops did not feel obligated to find all of the evidence that they needed to prosecute Brenton.…
This experiment went wrong and led to mental problems. These problems became so extreme that the experiment was discontinued after 6 days instead of 2 weeks. The Stanford Prison Experiment called into question the idea of Good vs Evil. The experiment showed how situational journey can cause an individual to “compromise” their beliefs. This change in behavior lead to psychological conflict among the “guards” and “prisoners.”…