Lecture 5 part 1 Flashcards
1
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Eyewitness memory
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- Use of our memory when one becomes a victim, witness, or bystander to a crime
- Often asked to provide description of perpetrator and make identification from a lineup
2
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Recall memory
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- Reporting details of previously encountered event
- Descriptions used to narrow down the suspect pool, ascertain what happen
3
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Recognition memory
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Determining whether previously seen item or person is the one being viewed
4
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Why care about memory errors in justice system
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- May impede utility of an investigation
- Police may apprehend innocent suspect
- Misidentification leading cause of wrongful convition
- Eyewitness evidence highly persuasive and relied upon in court
5
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Studying eyewitness issues in lab studies
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- Takes place in lab
- controlled environment
- Easy to conduct
- Lack ecological validity
- Most common study method
6
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Studying eyewitness issues in field studies
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- Real world setting
- Harder to conduct
- More applicable to the real world
- Less common study method
7
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Exposure phase of lab study
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- Participants exposed to an event (crime)
- Unaware that they will witness crime
- Unaware they will later have to describe and identify
8
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Description phase of lab study
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Asked to describe crime and perpetrator
9
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Delay phase of lab study
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Minutes, hours, days
10
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Identification phase of lab study
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Identify from lineup
11
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Phases of lab study
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- Exposure
- Description
- Delay
- Identification
12
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Estimator variable
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- Present at time of crime
- Cannot be changed
- Legal system does not have control
- Influence on memory has to be estimated
13
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System variable
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- Can be manipulated to increase or decrease accuracy
- Legal system has control
14
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Independent variables in eyewitness studies
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- Estimator variable
- System variable
15
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Event recall
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- Amount of information
- Type of information
- Accuracy
