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So this question is asking us, jurors place a lot of weight on eyewitness testimonies.
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So imagine you're an attorney representing a defendant who is accused of robbing a convenience store.
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Several eyewitnesses have been called to testify against your client.
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What would you tell the jurors about the reliability of eyewitness testimony? so what this question is basically touching on is the work of cognitive psychologist elizabeth loftus.
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And she basically conducted multiple studies and invested a lot of research in memory, and specifically false memories dealing with memories of childhood sexual abuse.
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And of her research, she is coined in with the better understanding of these two concepts, the misinformation effect paradigm and the false memory syndrome.
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So the misinformation effect paradigm refers to, to the way a person can misremember an original event when exposed to incorrect info.
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When exposed to incorrect info...