GENERAL

• WHAT IS MISLEADING INFORMATION?

  when memory of a witness is influenced leading their testimony to become inaccurate
• WHEN CAN A WITNESS' MEMORY BECOME DISTORTED?

  • encoding
  • storage
  • retrieval
• WHY CAN A MEMORY BE DISTORED DURING ENCODING?

  crimes are usually at night/ violent/ quick
• WHAT HAPPENS TO MEMORIES DURING ENCODING?

  can be distorted/ partial
• WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO MEMORIES DURING STORAGE?

  memories are lost/ modified over time
• WHY CAN MEMORIES BE DISTORTED DURING RETRIEVAL?

  telling others and reconstructing story in mind