Summary Of Eyewitness Testimonies And The Cognitive Psychology Chapter 16

Chapter 16 was a very intriguing section of reading mostly due to the fact that I am currently taking a criminal justice class. It is interesting to see the different perspectives of mental illnesses and disorders when comparing textbooks and material that I have learned from both classes. Most recently, I have conducted research on the validity of eyewitness testimonies and the cognitive psychology behind it. I also had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Belli, a professor at UNL that focuses most of his research on factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness testimonies such as the misinformation effect and recovered memory. When considering all the problems that are associated with human memory it is understandably flawed, but