Midterm Review

The ability to identify a concept or problem, isolate its component parts, organize information for decision making, establish for evaluation, and draw conclusions is having ___ ___.

When interviewing an eyewitness, examiners need to discover ____________.

A ___ is what a person perceives using sight, taste, hearing, smell and touch.

The human brain can process information directly from perception to ___-term memory.

Careful and accurate observation is the ____ ____ in a forensic investigation.

___________  is an interpretation of sensory observations

After evaluating hundreds of wrongful convictions, the Innocence Project found that faulty eyewitness identification contributed up to __ % of wrongful convictions

We can apply what we know about how the brain processes information to improve observation skills, including the fact that we are naturally inclined to filter out information we assume is ____.

A forensic scientist is called to a court of law to provide ________.

Good observation skills ___ come naturally to investigators, they need to be trained.