Witness challenges

Question 1

What is the diff between the way in which physical evidence and eyewitness evidence are collected?

Answer 1

Former - those with tx collect it.

EyeW - Police do it without tx in human memory

Question 2

What is the misinformation effect?

Answer 2

When people review misleading info after an event, they will make errors in recalling what they saw/altered recollections of details.

Question 3

Who is susceptible to the misinfo effect?

Answer 3

Lower cog fx, children, and elderly

Question 4

What are rich false memories?

Answer 4

Confabulation when family or close friends endorse the event occurring, if their description of the false event was rich in detail.

Question 5

What are other ways in which false memories are produced?

Answer 5

Imagining that someone happened. Suggestive false feedback - mainly given generic false info that they experienced an event.

Question 6

What variables are known to affect rates of mistaken ID?

Answer 6

Suspect bias variables: Things that may account for why a witness selects an innocent suspect v. one of the filelrs or saying IDK

General impairment variables: Things that account for poor eyewitness performance in general (e.g., different race, intoxication)

Question 7

What is relative judgment conceptualization?

Answer 7

When eyewitnesses tend to ID the person from a lineup who most closely resembles their memory of the perp relative to other members of the lineup.

Be careful if perp isn’t in the lineup…