Eyewitness TestimonyWhy confident eyewitnesses are frequently wrong.PsychologyFactors that reduce eyewitness accuracy.At the eventWeapon focus — attention narrows to the weaponVery high anxietyPoor lighting, brief exposureCross-race identification is less accurateAfterwardsLeading questions alter the memoryPost-event information is incorporatedRepeated questioning increases confidence, not accuracyFeedback after identification inflates confidenceImprovementsCognitive interviewDouble-blind, sequential line-upsConfidence recorded at the moment of identificationLoftus and Palmer: changing 'hit' to 'smashed' in a question raisedspeed estimates and produced false memories of broken glass.Eyewitness Testimonylearnposters.com
Eyewitness Testimony — printable life science wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Eyewitness Testimony poster

11 entries in 3 groups.

Factors that reduce eyewitness accuracy.

Loftus and Palmer: changing 'hit' to 'smashed' in a question raised speed estimates and produced false memories of broken glass.

Questions about the Eyewitness Testimony poster

What’s on the Eyewitness Testimony poster?
11 entries in 3 groups. Factors that reduce eyewitness accuracy. At the event: Weapon focus — attention narrows to the weapon, Very high anxiety, Poor…; Afterwards: Leading questions alter the memory, Post-event information is incorporate…; Improvements: Cognitive interview, Double-blind, sequential line-ups, Confidence reco…. Loftus and Palmer: changing 'hit' to 'smashed' in a question raised speed estimates and produced false memories of broken glass.
Who is the Eyewitness Testimony poster for?
Eyewitness Testimony belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cognitive can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Eyewitness Testimony poster?
Confidence and accuracy correlate weakly. That single finding has changed legal practice. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Eyewitness Testimony belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Eyewitness Testimony?
Attention, Cognitive Load and Decision Making sit alongside Eyewitness Testimony in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AttentionCognitive LoadDecision Making
Is the Eyewitness Testimony poster free to download and print?
Yes. Eyewitness Testimony downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Eyewitness Testimony poster print at?
Eyewitness Testimony is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Eyewitness Testimony loses nothing.Printing guide

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