Pozzulo-the Psycholgy Being Investigated/backround

Question 1

Eye witness testimony

Answer 1

Evidence submitted by an individual who has witnessed a crime.

Question 2

Eye witness testimony -children

Answer 2

Sometimes children are the only viable witnesses thus it must be ensured that their testimonies are reliable.

Question 3

False memories

Answer 3

A stored piece of info an individual assumes to be an accurate memory but is changed, influenced by later, additional and untrue info.

Question 4

False memories-cognitive psychologists

Answer 4

Cognitive psychologists have demonstrated memory can be distorted by info we are exposed to before or during encoding.

Question 5

What did previous research by Pozzulo reveal?

Answer 5

Pozzulo studied child witnesses and recognised that cognitive effects and social effects can cause errors in a child’s decision making.

Question 6

what cognitive effects can be responsible for errors in a child’s decision making process?

Answer 6

Cognitive effects include memory distortion due to post-event info, the way questions are posed and the level of cognitive demand.

Question 7

what social effects can be responsible for errors in a child’s decision making process?

Answer 7

The child may assume they must make a choice. The child is likely to view the person issuing questions as authority figures and thus will comply more. The child may feel pressured to make a choice to avoid getting in trouble. When faced with cognitively difficult tasks the child is more likely to rely on social factors to inform decisions.