Accuracy of eye witness testimony

• Inaccurate eyewitness accounts may result from misleading information provided during questioning, leading to false memories being created.
• Real word applications

  Criminal justice system - eyewirtness identification or investigating and prosecuting crimes.

  However psychosocial research used ot warn justice system of problems with eyewitness idenificant.

  DNA cases - mistaken eyewitness identification wa largest factor contributing to conviction of innocent people.
• Individual differences


  eg - compared to younger subjects elderly people have difficulty remembering source of their information even though their memory for the information itself is impaired.

  Gives misleading information when giving testimony.