One cognitive process that questions the reliability of the minds cognitive processes is memory. Memory is a very significant part of eye-witness testimony (EWT) which is a statement given by people that were either involved in an event or witnessed the event. EWT is vital in the criminal justice system as a way of testifying in criminal trials and relies solely on the accuracy of the person’s memory. Therefore, it is a very important that the testimony is reliable as it often has the power to determine one’s future. Before recent studies, EWT was seen as being a very trustworthy way of testifying, however, newer research has now shown that memory may not be as reliable as we thought and is subjected to being distorted which effects the reliability
