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Eyewitness_Testimony.docx(1) PSY-102 Eyewitness Testimony Out of 40 cases that were found to have a false conviction by DNA evidence, 36 of them were due to inaccurate eyewitness testimonies (Gri... son, Heatherton, & Gazzaniga, 2016). With a conviction rate that high, solely based on eyewitness testimonies, it really raises the question as to how reliable memory really is. There have been many studies that go into depth about how much the recollection of a memory lacks the needed detail of an even to truly be accurate. In order for an eyewitness testimony to be reliable, the individual would have to pay attention to every detail while the event is occurring (Grison et al., 2016). Due to the fact that individuals can have distorted, inaccurate, and false memories, eyewitness testimonies should thereby be considered unreliable. False memories are largely to blame for inaccurate eyewitness testimonies. The influence of intentional or unintentional external misleading information or internal cognitive processes can lead to the development of a false memory (Wang, Otgaar, Smeets, Howe, Merkelbach, & Zhuo, 2018). For example, if the individual who is providing the eyewitness testimony is biased against the one who is being accused of the crime, there is a chance that they will misidentify them as the culprit based off of their attitudes and beliefs. Not only would this result in an innocent individual serving time for a crime they did not commit, but the one who made the false testimony can be held account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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