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Is eyewitness testimony unreliable?
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Is eyewitness testimony unreliable?
Meaning
- EWT: recalled memory of a witness to a crime/incident
Relevance
- Affects society as a whole
- Juries rely on EWT
- Inaccurate EWT = false conviction
- Unnecessary prison costs
- Possible miscarriage of justice
- Affects individuals in society
- Guilt of inaccurate EWT
- False accusations/convictions
- Affects society as a whole
MSM
- For accurate transfer to LTM...
- Witnesses need to think about the incident
- Rehearsal of the event
- Unreliable EWT...
- Decay as no rehearsal
- Decay as no rehearsal
- For accurate transfer to LTM...
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- Mind Map on Is eyewitness testimony unreliable?, created by Matilda Kendall on 26/05/2019.
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- Matilda Kendall
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