Eye Witness Testimony Flashcards
What is eyewitness testimony?
Evidence provided by people who witnessed an event or crime
Who did experiments to show how EWT can be distorted?
Loftus and Palmer 1974
What are leading questions?
Questions that lead the eyewitness to give the answer for the question or wants
Who did a study into leading questions?
Loftus and Zanni 1975
Who did an experiment to show how discussions after the event can affect the accuracy of recall?
Shaw et al 1997
Which experiment looked at the effective age on EWT and what was the result?
Valentine and Coxon 1997
The children and old people were less accurate
How does anxiety affect accuracy of memory?
A small increase in anxiety improves accuracy but high levels make it worse
Which experiment looked at focus in EWT?
Loftus 1979
Which study showed that anxiety doesn’t always affect DWT
Yuille and Cutshall 1986
Who developed the cognitive interview technique?
Geiselman et al 1984
What are the stages of the cognitive interview?
The interviewer makes the witness relaxed
the witness re-creates the context of the crime scene.
The witness reports everything they can remember
the witness is asked to record detail details in different orders.
The witness is asked to recall events from different perspectives.
The interviewer doesn’t judge.
What experiment supports CIT?
Geiselman et al 1986
