Imagine You Are on a Jury and Subjected to Conflicting

question 9

Essay

Imagine you are on a jury and subjected to conflicting eyewitness testimonies.One individual,Paul,says,"The defendant told me he took the money." The defendant claims that he is innocent,that Paul is misremembering,and that,in fact,their mutual friend Jake is the one who took the money.Given your knowledge of source memory,describe how this mix-up could occur.As a juror,what would you do in this case?

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Definitions:

Phallic Stage

A stage in Freudian psychosexual development, when a child's focus of pleasure is on the genital area.

Freud

refers to Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Physical Focus

The emphasis on or concentration of resources and efforts on bodily or material aspects of existence.

Identification

A psychological process in which an individual assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of another and is transformed, wholly or partially, by the model the other provides.