Eyewitness Testimony

1. 1Court cases often depend upon eyewitnesses testimonies (EWTs), but research suggests errors and inaccuracies occur resulting in wrongful convictions.

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2. 2Memories cannot be reconstructed over time due to ready made expectations based on previous experiences, moods, existing knowledge contexts.

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3. 3Anxiety affects recall by diverting attention towards important features of a situation.

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4. 4The Yerkes-Dodson inverted U-hypothesis is used to explain how moderate amounts of emotional arousal improve memory recall up to an optimal point, after which further increases lead to a decline.

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5. 5Repression suggest anxiety helps recall, with forgetting being motivated by traumatic content of memories. Access to such memories is denied to protect individuals from emotional distress.

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6. 6There is evidence that accuracy of EWT increases with age.

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Quiz am Eyewitness Testimony, erstellt von xxxx xxxx am 13/04/2015.

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