Eyewitness Testimony Flashcards
What is misleading information?
Incorrect information/ ideas presented to a witness, usually after the event. Examples include leading questions and post-event discussion.
What are leading questions?
A question which implies or favours a particular answer - e.g. ‘Was he wearing a brown jacket.
What is Post-event discussion?
The idea that your memory of an event can be affected by talking to people about it after the event, perhaps due to memory conformity.
What factor affects EWT with stress?
Anxiety
What is weapon focus?
The theory that people tend to focus on threatening objects rather than faces.
What is Cognitive interview?
A technique for improving eye witness testimony.
What is meant by ‘report everything’?
Asking the witness to recall every aspect of an event, even if it seems.
Change perspective
A cognitive interview technique where the witness is asked to recall the events from another witness’ point of view.
Change order
A cognitive interview technique where the witness is asked to recall events in a non-chronological order to disrupt schema.
Context reinstatement
When the witness is asked to put themselves back in the same mental state they were in during an event.
