Joy Chase March 3 2013 RELA Mod 3 Essay: “The Story of An Eyewitness” and “Leaving Desire” - Introduction This essay is based on “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London and “Leaving Desire” by Jon Lee Anderson. “The Story of an Eyewitness” talks about how the San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the city in 1906. “Leaving Desire” talks about a victim of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. London and Anderson’s coverage of these disasters
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correct. There are three phases of the memory process: Encoding‚ Storage‚ and retrieval. Psychologists believe that errors can occur at any of these three phases. Psychologists state that even though our perceptual abilities are good (Penrod‚ Loftus‚ & Wrinkler‚ 1982) that we will make errors. We tend to over or underestimate criminal’s height‚ weight etc. we overestimate how long or short the duration of the crime was. Psychologists also stated that the longer it has been since the
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Eye Witness Testimony Refers to the use of eye or ear witnesses in court or in police statements about the identity of someone who has committed a crime. Key Study into EWT – Factors that Influence EWT * Anxiety * Unpleasant emotional state where we fear that something bad is about to happen usually accompanied by physiological arousal (pumping heart) * Deffenbacher – MA of studies found considerable support for a negative correlation between anxiety and EWT meaning the more
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Misinformation Effect and Howe does it Work A well-documented research by an influential psychologist named Dr. Elizabeth Loftus‚ suggested that interviews can actually lead to tremendous errors in eyewitness testimony. Additionally‚ for many years researchers have also suspected that forensic interview methods highly influence eyewitness testimonies which are a major cause of inaccuracies. Eyewitnesses could be led to give reports of objects of events they did not actually experience. This debate
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eyewitness memory is the degree of emotional arousal or stress experienced by the witness during the crime. There are many studies looking at the effects of anxiety and stress on eyewitness testimonies’. Some of them have shown that anxiety can impair the accuracy of these testimonies. However‚ other studies have proven that anxiety and stress can actually lead to a more detailed and accurate recall of the event witnessed. Loftus and Burns (1982) showed that anxiety can impair the accuracy of eyewitness
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In David Gergens book‚ “Eye Witness Power: The Essence of Leadership” he covers 4 major presidents‚ Richard Nixon‚ Gerald Ford‚ Ronald Regan‚ and Bill Clinton. In my opinion He did well communicating everything and made the book pretty interesting. I like how he covers each president and actually goes into a lot of details. I actually found that it was more interesting than I had initially thought. The detail in this book is incredible‚ it’s like a behind the scenes of each presidency. Gegren served
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whole life trying to understand memory is Elizabeth Loftus. We will begin with a short biography and also touch on how she has helped psychology to grow. Elizabeth Loftus was born Elizabeth Fishman on October 16‚ 1944 to Sidney and Rebecca Fishman in Los Angeles‚ California (Born‚ 1997). She was raised in Bel Air with both her parents. Then in 1959 her mother passed away‚ she had drowned in a swimming pool when Loftus was only 14 years old. Loftus wanted to be a high school math teacher‚ but after
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because of false eye witness testimonies. Eye witness testimonies are the accounts given in the courtroom during a grand jury or trial by a witness at the event of a crime. False eye witness testimonies convict innocent people into prison. Out of the 80‚000 prosecutions a year that rely on eye witnesses‚ about half get convicted. Of those half‚ we are still sending 5‚000 innocent people to prison each year. There are many reasons why eye witness testimonies are unreliable. Eye witness testimonies rely
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Eye Witness Testimony “Eyewitness testimony is so unreliable that it should never be used in convicting criminals”. Eyewitness testimony is a legal term. It refers to; an account given by person(s) of an event they’ve witnessed. Eyewitness testimony is admissible in a court of law to assist in the conviction of individuals. In 1976‚ the Devlin report examined over 2000 identity parades in the U.K. Of the 2000 parades‚ 45% resulted in a suspect being identified and out of these‚ 82% were eventually
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Brenda Richardson Intro. to Psych. Chapter 6 Part 2 Loftus Experiment Elizabeth Loftus‚ a psychologist and expert on memory‚ has conducted much research on human memories‚ real and imagined‚ and how that may happen. Loftus‚ personally‚ has experienced the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory. Even though there are several experiments outlined‚ I chose the ’Lost in the Mall’ experiment as more fitting to the sex abuse testimony she gave. Participants‚ twenty-four of them‚
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