Key Issue Eye Witness Testimonary Flashcards
1
Q
Levels of processing
A
In crime process physical appearances
No time for semantic/ elaborate rehearsal in crime.
2
Q
Cue dependency
A
State and context cues not the same as when encoding when your in a station/ court, so will be harder and cause an inaccurate memory
3
Q
Reconstructive theory
A
Memory is an active process, we price bits together when retrieval takes place.
4
Q
About
A
Lifts and Palmer- can’t trust memory
Post events, 45 watched car crash video, write an account, 5 conditions, what happened when the cars… Smashed, collided, contacted, bumped, hit.
10mph more when smashed plus falsely reported broken glass= distorted memory
