WorksheetsEyewitness Testimony
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
How often are eyewitness testimonies correct?
25%
50%
75%
100%
What is one of the most important things law enforcement can do when presenting a photo array to a witness?
Label the back of the pictures
Make sure the person administering knows the suspect
Double blind administration
Put the suspects photo twice, in different clothes
Who is responsible for determining the standard for eyewitnesses
State
City
National
United Nations
In what year did the Supreme Court fail to establish a national standard?
2001
1996
2004
2012
Which is not an established, consisten variable that can affect eyewitness testimony
Estimator variables
System Variables
Internal Variables
All can effect
Fillers in a lineup should NOT match the description of the suspect to prevent confusion
True
False
A witness should be pressured to pick a perpetrator from the provided line up
true
false
"Studies show that eyewitnesses who were given confirmatory feedback on their identification inflated their recollections of the confidence they felt in their selections"
True
False
Identification procedures should be videotaped whenever possible.
True
False
What is episodic memory?
When someone only remembers things in episodes
Ability to remember TV shows
a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience
a person’s memory of a specific event will be exact from someone else’s recollection of the same experience like they had seen the same TV episdoe
