Chapter 15

Question 1

Know the research covered in your text on eyewitness testimony

Answer 1

certainty or confidence is not related to accuracy, confident witnesses are more believable to jurors, even a discredited witness is more convincing than no witness
testimony can be affected by questioning, their own retelling events, or which side they are on

Question 2

Know the ways of reducing error in eyewitness testimony

Answer 2

train police interviewers to not ask leading questions

minimize false lineup identification by making sure lineup people are similar looking and remind people that they may not be in the lineup

educate jurors

Question 3

Know the effect of defendant’s attractiveness and similarity to jurors.

Answer 3

get lesser sentences than those who are unattractive or dissimilar

Question 4

Know the impact of Judges instructions and the role of reactance.

Answer 4

has no effect at all, because it is difficult to forget, reactance might happen, telling jurors to ignore it draws attention to it.