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To What Extent does Psychological
Research Support the View that
Eye Witness Testimony is Entirely Unreliable?
Research into Eye Witness Testimony is very important. ...
In many cases, reconstructive memory is proven to have a part when people make an Eye Witness Testimony. ...
Another thing considered to affect eye witness testimony is the exposure time. ... In real eye witness testimony this can build a false impression of reliability.
Weapon Focus is another factor to consider in eye witness testimony. ...
The degree of violence seen by the eye witness can alter testimony results. ... So shock plays a part in the inaccuracy of some eye witness testimonies.
All these studies show that eye witness testimony is an unreliable way to convict people of committing crimes. ... Laboratory experiments are good in the way that they can easily control all of the variables so that the end result will be only a result of the independent variable that you want to be testing, in this case the reliability of eye witness testimony. ... Also when actually witnessing a real event there is probably some emotional impact affecting the results of eye witness testimony and this is hard to test in laboratory experiments.
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