Eyewitness testimony

more inaccurate memories. For example, if there was a rape case, as a society we feel the need to put on trial the man/women who the victim reports to have committed this horrific act in prison. However, this can be destructive if we solely rely on eyewitness identification because how inaccurate it can…

Overview: Summarise the study, including why it was done and what was found (approx. 350 words) In an experiment in 1969 by Marshall using air force personnel it was discovered that recalling details of an event, in this case, the speed of a vehicle, were difficult for people to recall. In some cases, participants recalled speeds of up to 50 mph where the actual speed was 12 mph (Flanagan, 2013). Loftus and Palmer further studied Marshall’s discovery, Loftus and Palmers two-tailed hypotheses was…

times in eyewitness accounts or oral testimonies, there is question whether what the interviewee is saying is indeed factual or if it lacks validity. The problem is, scholars base their primary and only source off of the words of the people they are interviewing, nothing else. This leaves room for non-factual information to be spread and believed by those who read these testimonies. (Totten and Parsons 7) 8) Education was often mentioned in Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts…

vagaries perception and memory undermine the accuracy of eyewitness identification” (p.27). She stated that, “they also illustrate the ways in which … perception and memory can generate false but convincing identification testimony” (Poulin, 2007, para 2.). Confidence shown by a witness can positively persuade a jury but it is not necessarily synonymous with accuracy. In this case, the three boys at the centre of the De Oliveira case gave a testimony. According to (CBC, 2010), one of the boys…

questions -, emotions and mental illness. This means that what a person believes to be true may not be true at all, and could in fact be a reconstruction based on their brains attempts to make sense of a scene that it does not understand. Due to this, eyewitness reports can be notoriously unreliable as a person may try to 'fill in the gaps ' with information that they believe makes sense, but that in practice is inaccurate and should not be used in a police investigation. A key example of this…

I. Background A profound and prolific Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, psychologist, social critic and writer in nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard, stated “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” His statement is exactly what to refer to in how cognitive biases may affect judicial decisions. The judges or jurors in the court are limited human observers; therefore, they are confined by the boundaries of…

1) Describe one mnemonic device and give an example of how it might be used. The method of Loci is when you use images to help recall information from memory. This method uses location and landmarks to be able to recall certain things. For example I use this when needing to remember where certain things are. I visualize a house and if I need to remember where my keys are, I remember everything that I may touch on my daily routine. So I imagine my house and each room and the locations that I…

case, as established in the documentary “The Trials of Darryl Hunt,” is surrounded by many issues dealing to Hunt’s conviction. Of these issues, a couple stood out the most; police corruption, prosecution misconduct, photo lineup, false testimony, eyewitness testimony, jury selection, and so forth. As a tool, to help provide a better analysis, course materials will be used. Before moving forward and exploring deeper into the aforementioned problems circling Darryl’s hunt trial, it would be…

False eyewitness identification has proven to have a high degree of inaccuracy, yet still remains to be one of the most convincing pieces of evidence presented to a jury during a trial. Eyewitness accounts of certain events have been used to convict individuals that were later exonerated after serving years in a correctional facility for crimes they did not commit. Through the use of photographs and lineups during a criminal investigation, police officers and other interested parties are able to…

The Fallibility of Memory Back in the fifteenth century, eyewitness testimony was taken as factual evidence in court. During the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts, people were put to death because a person claimed to have seen them preforming witchcraft. Within past decades, we have now discovered that eyewitness testimonies are not factual, or condemning evidence. This is because, memory is theorized and easily impressionable. As you sit outside with a friend at your favorite café,…