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Question 1

What is dna exoneration

Answer 1

When we use dna evidence to over turn a conviction (DNA did not match with convicted person therefore innocent)

Question 2

Describe Schemas

Answer 2

beliefs and expectations
concerning the nature, characteristics,
behaviours, or functions of objects, people,
and events.

Question 3

Explain cue utilisation theory

Answer 3

People can only attend to a limited
number of cues at any one time. As stress
increases, their attention narrows to the
stress-generating features

Question 4

What is the “Weapon Focus” Effect

Answer 4

Visual attention that eyewitnesses give to
the perpetrator’s weapon during the
course of a crime

Question 6

Define label consistent error

Answer 6

refers to the tendency to misinterpret or misattribute information based on existing labels or categories, leading to biased judgments and decisions.

Question 7

Describe Hindsight bias

Answer 7

when knowledge of current
events, emotions, or outcomes biases
judgments and memory of processes leading
up to them

Question 8

Explain Illusory Truth Effect

Answer 8

even the simple act of
repeating a statement can increase the
strength of one’s belief in its truth

Question 10

Explain Spreading activation theory of memory

Answer 10

• information is encoded into cognitive units
• the strength of these units increases with practice and decays with delay
• retrieval is achieved by spreading activation
  throughout the network
• the level of activation in the network determines the rate and probability of recall

Question 11

Explain the Encoding specificity principle

Answer 11

to the extent that encoding conditions and
retrieval conditions are similar, memory will be enhanced

Question 13

Explain Postdiction Variables

Answer 13

Measurable products that correlate with identification accuracy in a non- causal manner