Question: How reliable is Eyewitness testimony, and what can be done to improve it?
Answer: To answer this question in depth is beyond the scope of this work, which will explain briefly how human memory works; factors effecting the memory process; how a memory is recalled, with emphasis on eyewitness testimony; and concluding with steps to improve the quality and quantity of information retrieved from eyewitnesses.
“Only a fraction of the signals that reach us from the outside world can be registered by our senses. Even fewer are converted into memories.” (Lloyd-Bostock, 1988: p5). When we experience an event, all of our senses are receptors of information, which we then process for memory, however we are selective....(short extract)
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- Subject: Psychology
- Course: Perception and Cognition
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 68%
- Words: 1997
- Date submitted: May 26, 2009
- Date written: April, 2000
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1716
