Eyewitness Testimony

How often are eyewitness testimonies correct?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

What is one of the most important things law enforcement can do when presenting a photo array to a witness?

• Label the back of the pictures

• Make sure the person administering knows the suspect

• Double blind administration

• Put the suspects photo twice, in different clothes

Who is responsible for determining the standard for eyewitnesses

• State

• City

• National

• United Nations

In what year did the Supreme Court fail to establish a national standard?

• 2001

• 1996

• 2004

• 2012

Which is not an established, consisten variable that can affect eyewitness testimony

• Estimator variables

• System Variables

• Internal Variables

• All can effect

Fillers in a lineup should NOT match the description of the suspect to prevent confusion

• True

• False

A witness should be pressured to pick a perpetrator from the provided line up

• true

• false

"Studies show that eyewitnesses who were given confirmatory feedback on their identification inflated their recollections of the confidence they felt in their selections"

• True

• False

Identification procedures should be videotaped whenever possible.

• True

• False

What is episodic memory?

• When someone only remembers things in episodes

• Ability to remember TV shows

• a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience

• a person’s memory of a specific event will be exact from someone else’s recollection of the same experience like they had seen the same TV episdoe