Week 7 - Thursday Flashcards
Does more time benefit memory, in regards to recognition?
NOOOOO!!!!!
Does the weapons focus effect affect eyewitness reliability?
No.
Do suboptimal conditions impair eyewitness reliability?
No, they only lower witness confidence. [
Can confidence be a good measure of accuracy of eye witness testimonies?
Yes, as long as their aren’t contaminated.
Non-IDs are evidence of what?
Innocence.
What made Solorio salient in eyewitnesses minds?
The fact that he was on the news.
What error were researchers making when finding a correlation between confidence and accurate eye witness testimony? What should they have used instead?
They were using a calibration calculation to determine accuracy. Instead, they should’ve used a confidence-accuracy characteristic analysis.
The act of testing memory ________ it
contaminates
Does stress, darkness, a weapon, or similar faces lower eyewitness accuracy or confidence?
They don’t effect eyewitness accuracy, but they lower confidence.
