Factors Affecting Eyewitness Testimony in Legal Proceedings Quiz

Test your knowledge on factors influencing eyewitness testimony reliability, memory distortion, and cognitive biases in legal settings.

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Which of the following is NOT a factor affecting eyewitness testimony reliability?

Duration of the event

Weapon focus

Stress and anxiety

Eyewitness's age

What term refers to the phenomenon where eyewitness memory becomes less accurate over time?

Retrograde amnesia

Memory consolidation

Memory decay

Cryptomnesia

Which cognitive bias occurs when a lineup or photo array includes a suspect who stands out from the others?

Confirmation bias

Distinctiveness bias

Unconscious transference

Simultaneous lineup bias

What factor can lead to increased eyewitness confidence but not necessarily accuracy?

Stress

Misinformation

Rehearsal

Prompt identification

Which of the following is a potential consequence of leading questions during eyewitness interviews?

Enhanced recall

Reduced suggestibility

Increased accuracy

Memory contamination

What is the term for the phenomenon where exposure to post-event information can distort an eyewitness's memory of the original event?

Reconstruction bias

Misinformation effect

Suggestibility bias

Hindsight bias

Which factor refers to the tendency of people to mistakenly identify someone they saw in one situation as the perpetrator in another?

Weapon focus

Cross-race effect

Unconscious transference

Source monitoring error

In the context of eyewitness testimony, what does 'own-race bias' refer to?

The tendency of eyewitnesses to remember faces of people from their own race better than those of other races

The tendency of eyewitnesses to provide more accurate descriptions of people from their own race

The tendency of eyewitnesses to be more confident when identifying people from their own race

The tendency of eyewitnesses to be less susceptible to misinformation when recalling events involving people from their own race

What is the term for a situation where an eyewitness's memory of an event is altered by information they received after the event?

Retroactive interference