Eyewitness testimony Flashcards
What is misinformation effect?
Its when someone remembers something but the memory is less accurate because of the information after that.
It can lead to other memories when people talk to other people who were there as well.
How dose the interview with eyewitness work?
The police gathers a set of pictures of 6 to 8 people wearing the same thing. Usually the majority of the people in the pictures are foils or filters.
What are foils and filters?
They are innocent people that are just being used to test the witness es.
What are some mock-witness error?
- The witness can choose someone from the lineup that is actually all made of foils.
- Or when the witness choses a foil instead of the suspect.
What are some reasons that mock witness error happen?
Poor vision can be one because people sometimes cant actually examine the pictures so well.
Lack of time as well because there is not that much time to look at all the pictures.
What are kinds of memory biases?
- Forgetting happenings with you and people you know.
- Messing up date and locations of where things happened.
- Schemata.
What is schemata?
Its a pattern of thoughts that our brain creates to put information into categories.
What is false memory?
Thinking something happened but it actually didn’t.
What is Gestalt?
When our brain adds up little memories and create a a story from all of it.
