Key Question

Question 1

What is the key question

Answer 1

How reliable are eye witness testimonies

Question 2

Working memory model

Answer 2

• central executive can’t engage with all aspects of the crime scene
• Visio spatial sketch pad only hold info temporarily so some will be forgotten
• phonological loop has limited capacity so the eye witness will not remember every thing

Question 3

Multi store model of memory

Answer 3

• without rehearsal info won’t go from STM to LTM and the short term memory has a limited capacity and duration there for some memories will be displaced

Question 4

Reconstructive memory

Answer 4

• when the eye witness recalls what happened at thee crime scene it will be different to what actually happened due to schemas and the eye witness filling in gaps in their memory