6.4 Key Question Flashcards
1
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Key Question
A
Is EWT too unreliable to trust?
2
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Importance
A
- Wrongful convictions
- Lack of support for wrongfully convicted
3
Q
A01
A
- 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
4
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A02
A
- 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)
5
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AO3
A
- 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