One Significant Problem with Eyewitness Testimony Is That

question 72

Multiple Choice

One significant problem with eyewitness testimony is that

• A) short-term memory fades almost completely during the interval between the event and the trial.
• B) most juries do not trust eyewitness testimony as much as they should.
• C) people's memory sometimes fills in information that has been suggested to them, even though it did not happen.
• D) the depth-of-processing principle is in conflict with the encoding specificity principle.

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Definitions:

Subsequent Trials

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Capability Problems

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Pooled Interdependence

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