Summary Week 4 Eyewitness Testimony Outline.docx PSY 100 Memory and Eyewitness Testimony Grand Canyon University: PSY 100 Introduction What are memory and eyewitness testimonies? Memory is found within the nervous system by obtaining information and

Week 4 Eyewitness Testimony O PSY 100 Memory and Eyewitness Testimony Grand Canyon University: PSY 100 Introduction What are memory and eyewitness testimonies? Memory is found within the nervous system by obtaining information and storing it until it is needed later. Eyewitness testimonies is a term used in a legal setting for someone who has witnessed an accident or crime. While Memory and Eyewitness testimonies can work together there can be problems with recalling the memory. Because based on the age of an adult or child that experienced the same event their mind will process the memory differently, Self-Administered Interviews can improve the quality of a testimony given by a child, and Eyewitness testimonies can be unreliable due to social influences or their age. Age-related differences in the phenomenal characteristics of long- term memories of March 11, 2004 In 2017, Rocio Vallet et al. wrote an arti