Children are sometimes used to give evidence in criminal proceedings - can their evidence be relied upon? What about elderly people? We discussed further factors that might affect eyewitness testimony. You need to be familiar with the following terms/concepts:
Anxiety & eyewitness testimony
The Yerkes-Dodson law
The weapon effect
Schemas & eyewitness testimony
Age & eyewitness testimony
Own-age bias
Differential experience hypothesis
Today's ppt is here and the writing frame to fill in on age and eyewitness testimony is here.
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