11 Facts About Eyewitness memory

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Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other dramatic event that he or she has witnessed.

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In general, Eyewitness memory is an individual process and that conceptualization of race causes racial ambiguity in facial recognition.

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Distortions in a witness's Eyewitness memory can be induced by suggestive questioning procedures.

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Furthermore, it has been shown that information encoded and stored in Eyewitness memory is dependent on the extent of knowledge regarding the event.

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Research investigating earwitness memory has only recently emerged from the shadow of the extensively investigated phenomena of eyewitness memory and eyewitness testimony, despite having been in use within the English justice system since the 1660s.

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Earwitness Eyewitness memory refers to a person's auditory Eyewitness memory for a crime or incriminatory information they have heard.

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Much of the research which has been conducted on earwitness Eyewitness memory focuses on speaker recognition, otherwise known as voice recognition, whilst there is less research which investigates Eyewitness memory for environmental sounds.

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However, a lot of research investigating environmental sound and Eyewitness memory recall is conducted in a laboratory setting and so has limited ecological validity and generalizability.

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However, research has investigated whether earwitness Eyewitness memory is impaired to the same extent when the face of the one speaking is concealed in some way.

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Furthermore, the extent to which the time-interval affects Eyewitness memory recall for auditory information depends upon whether the witness just heard the auditory information of whether it was accompanied by visual information too, such as the face of the perpetrator.

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Eyewitness memory fell prey to factors after the incident that affected the accuracy of her recall.

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