Thursday, 18 November 2010

Eyewitness Testimony - Influencing factors

Hi Psychs

1) Read this article from BBC News following the wrongful killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in London. Based upon this research and your summaries of other key research should EWT be used in court? Your views in the comments section please.

2) In the video below what factors are likely to effect their ability to accurately testify in a court?

(This is a useful series of videos creating a more ecologically valid version of different experiments we have studied - the volunteers believe they are on a lunchbreak from helping Manchester Police - everyone else in the bar are actors).


Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Do you find easily repeatable tunes annoying but memorable? GOOD

Please find below possibly the most annoying song! However, maybe a great way of learning the Working Memory Model, it's designers and the constituent parts of the model. I expect you all to learn it ready to perform to Miss Knight by Christmas!