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How reliable is Eyewitness testimony, and what can be done to improve it?
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How reliable is Eyewitness testimony, and what can be done to improve it? To answer this question in depth is beyond the scope of this work, which will explain briefly how human memory works; factors effecting the memory process; how a memory is recalled, with emphasis on eyewitness testimony; and concluding with steps to improve the quality and quantity of information retrieved from eyewitnesses. "Only a fraction of the signals that reach us from the outside world can be registered by our senses. Even fewer are converted into memories." (Lloyd-Bostock, 1988: p5). When we experience an event, all of our senses are receptors of information, which we then process for memory, however we are selective. We cannot remember everything as if videotaping our lives (Ainsworth, 1998). This filtering of information is recognized in Broadbent's 'Filter Theory' (Milne & Bull, 1999). Memory begins with ENCODING (Milne & Bull, 1999), where sense is made of...
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