Eyewitness Testimony

What does the Innocence Project use to exonerate falsely convicted individuals?

• DNA

• RNA

• DNA & RNA

• eyewitness testimony

Stress can enhance the brain's ability to construct accurate memories.

• True

• False

Expert witnesses in eyewitness identification can educate juries leading to a better and more fair evaluation of an eyewitness's testimony.

• True

• False

Which of these cannot be controlled by the criminal justice system?

• estimator variables

• system variables

Which of these can and should be controlled by the criminal justice system?

• Estimator variables

• System variables

How did the police in the conviction of Marvin Anderson influence the line-up?

• Anderson's picture was the only one in color

• Anderson's picture was the only one in black and white

• He was the only black man in the line-up

• there was no line-up of any kind

Episodic memory relies on semantic memory. Which type of memory is based solely on the facts and not on individual unique memories.

• episodic memory

• semantic memory

The process the brain goes through each time you form a new episodic memory

• consolation

• encoding

• recollection

"Baking" the event into long-term memory

• consolidation

• encoding

• recollection

A process the elicits the retrieval of contextual information pertaining to a specific event.

• consolidation

• encoding

• recollection