Eyewitness Information and Identification Flashcards

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Three types of memory

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Sensory memory - short-term memory - longterm memory

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Sensory memory

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Refers to the very short duration for which sense-based information is held post-exposure

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Short-term memory

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Refers to the limited amount of information 7 + or - 2 items usually which can be stored without rehearsal for a short duration (approx 30 seconds)

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Long term-memory

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Refers to the almost unlimited amount of information which can be stored over a life-time with rehearsal

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Why is the reliability of the information given important (3)

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  • assisting police to identify a suspect - assisting police to confirm the indentity of an alleged offender - providing testimony at trials
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How is reliability generally assessed?

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Generally assessed according to the memory model (esp. long-term memory)

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The relationship between confidence and reliability

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there is no relationship

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Recognition

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Is the ability to elicit stored material through the use of a cue

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Recall

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Is the ability to elicit stored material without externally providing any type of cue

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What are two categories that factors related to the input aspect of eyewitness reliability

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Witness and Situation

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What are the witness-based factors? (5)

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-Age -Gender - Race - Intelligence - Personality -

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What are the situational factors? (5)

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-Stress/arousal - Event duration - Weapons effect - Frequency of victimisation - Illumination

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Age based differences

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  • free recall differences (younger and elderly are less able to free recall) - Line-up identification differences (young children less reliable than adults) - difference in suggestibility (the younger you or elderly the more suggestible you are)
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Gender based differences

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  • Slight recall difference based on stereotyped activities (remember based on stereotypical male/female activity - the activity that matches the witnesses own)
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Race based diff.

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Cross race recognition differences

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Intelligence based diff.

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No difference (within reason unless below ~70)

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Personality based diff.

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  • Recall and recognition difference for high self-monitors
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Stress/arousal based diff.

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  • Recognition and recall impact based on yerkes-dodson
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Event duration based diff.

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-Recall diff at approx 30 seconds, get better after 30 seconds

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Weapons Effect

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-Recall or recognition differences

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Frequency

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Recognition differences

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Issues with storage of information

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  • Passage of time - Rehearsal - Meaning - Post-event information
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Passage of time based diff.

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Recall and recog differences - the sooner after the event the better

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Rehearsal

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Recall and recognition differences (for both under and over rehearsal)

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Meaning/Simulation heuristic
If something means more to you, you're more likely to remember
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Post-event information
- The issue of 'planted memories'
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Issues assoc. with output of information
Type of questioning- Confidence - Use of Interview Protocol - False Memories
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Type of questioning
Free recall vs prompting questions - need victims to remember things without prompting them (and possibly planting memories)
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Confidence
No difference in confidence levels
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Use of interview protocol
Less bias with interview protocols
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False memories
Linked to Freudian Theory of Repressed Memories & Suggestibility
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Identification Procedures in the old days:
Show-ups (show someone the alleged offender in handcuffs)
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Live-Line up
Need the line-up to be equitable - hard to do
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Photo-line up
"circle the person you recognise"
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The photo line-up construction process
- 1 target, 5 foils - Foils should match target as much as possible (hard to do if target has changed) - Target should be in a random position - Should tell them that the target may not be in the line-up - Sequential vs simultaneous (psychs argue there is a huge difference between them)