key question

Question 1

key question for clinical

Answer 1

Do different societies define mental health disorders differently?

Question 2

key question for criminal

Answer 2

is eye-witness testimony reliable?

Question 3

criminal AO1

Answer 3

• Mr. green is evidence for a false conviction with him receiving a death sentence for the murder of a newspaper editor in Florida, who described her killer as a skinny, black man. He was chosen by witness in a police line up even though he had a tight alibi.
• An eye witness testimony is a first hand description of an incident that happened and is useful for finding culprit’s to the case and its reliability depends on whether they provide information to authorities immediately or later.

Question 4

Criminal AO2

Answer 4

• weapon focus can lead to inaccurate eye witness testimony due to witnesses being focused on the weapon, that any description of the of the guilty is not remembered well.
• Reconstructive memory shows that schemas can change description of an incident which changes memory of the original situation. Confabulation, rationalization and assimilation used to understand situation to make sense to us.

Question 5

criminal AO3

Answer 5

• Taylor1982 claimed that when people focus on weapon in a scene, they do not pay attention to the things around them. Or if weapon is available, recall of some things may be available but is in reduced ability.
• Loftus 1979 failed to mislead 98 of a 100 people with an incorrect suggestion of a man stealing a red purse from a woman’s bag but most of the ppt correctly recalled that the purse was brown showing that eyewitness testimony can be reliable.