6.4 Key Question Flashcards

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Key Question

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Is EWT too unreliable to trust?

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Importance

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  • Wrongful convictions
  • Lack of support for wrongfully convicted
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A01

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  • Innocence project 72% of wrongful convictions were due to eyewitness misidentification
  • Society will loose trust in justice system if innocent people are sent to jail
  • Ronald Cotton sent to jail and did 10 years for a rape due to misidentification
  • If there’s no forensic evidence then EWT is important
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A02

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  • Weapon focus (when weapon is present, less attention paid to perpetrator and other details so more likely to misidentify)
  • Stress and Arousal (Yerkes-Dodson, optimum and after that if more stress then performance decreases)
  • Reconstructive memory (memory isn’t a tape recorder, false info, confabulate simplify and rationalise)
  • Leading questions (response bias, think they should answer in a certain way)
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AO3

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  • Johnson and Scott (weapon focus)
  • Valentine and Mesout (stress and arousal)
  • Bartlett (reconstructive memory)
  • Lofus and Palmer (leading question) however lab experiment so less credible
  • Should use objective forensics as well
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