After watching the related videos on questioning and memory of eye witnesses I have learned that the witnesses play a huge part in determining who they saw at the scene of the crime. People have been wrongfully accused of crimes that they did not commit just because they have some of the same features as the actual suspect. The courts see eye witness testimony as a crucial factor into determining who has committed the crime. One way that humans tend to memorize things is by seeing the resemblance between things that we are just witnessing and things that we have seen in the past. People will pick out certain words that have been said and go in to their memory to try and relate the word that stuck out to them with what they have stored in their
