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Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong <- your first lab link

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4. Reconstructive memory is a theory of elaborate memory recall 
3.the brain fills in information that was not there, not originally stored, from inference, from speculation, from sources of information that came to you, as the observer, after the observation. But it happens without awareness such that you don't, aren't even cognizant of it occurring. It's called reconstructed memories.
5.First of all, we have all the statistical analyses from the Innocence Project work, where we know that we have, what, 250, 280 documented cases now where people have been wrongfully convicted and subsequently exonerated, some from death row, on the basis of later DNA analysis, and you know that over three quarters of all of those cases of exoneration involved only eyewitness identificationtestimony during the trial that convicted them. We know that eyewitness identifications are fallible.

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