Background Flashcards
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Court cases
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Eyewitness testimony is used a lot in court cases as evidence and is considered to be one of the most important factors.
2
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Memory
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Memory research has shown that memory is often inaccurate and influenced by our pre-existing knowledge, leading to distorted memory’s of events
3
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Bartlett
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Barrett was one of the first researchers to introduce the ideas of reconstructive memory and said that our memory is not like a film which exactly replicates what we originally perceived, but instead we try to make sense of what we saw by applying schemas.
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Importance
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It’s important to understand how an eyewitness memory can be influenced in order to ensure that information used in court is accurate
