Describe Three Research Findings Regarding Improving Eyewitness Accuracy

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The Answer is Any three of the following can be described in the essay:
• Blind lineup administration (when a person administering a lineup or photo spread does not know who the suspect is and whether the suspect is in the lineup).
• Bias-reducing instruction to eyewitnesses (when they are told that the suspect may not be in the lineup or spread).
• Unbiased lineup (when fillers are similar enough to the suspect so that "mock witnesses" would not pick out the suspect more often than 1/6 of the time for a 6-person lineup).
• Confidence ratings (should be taken from the witness right after identification but BEFORE any feedback is given about that identification).
• Video recording of the identification procedure (to avoid any guessing afterwards about what transpired during the identification).
• Sequential lineups (showing photos or people in the lineup one by one so that the witness would compare them to the memory rather than to each other).
• Expert testimony (studies showed that when jurors hear an expert explain research findings about eyewitness identification and common errors associated with it, they are less likely to overestimate the accuracy of eyewitness accounts).

Describe Three Research Findings Regarding Improving Eyewitness Accuracy

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