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Memory: When Eyes Deceive
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Overview
In this segment, a purse snatching takes place in a law school classroom, with the entire class of law students as eyewitnesses. Will they be able to accurately identify the purse snatcher?

Web Connections
The Eyewitness Consortium
http://eyewitness.utep.edu/default.htm

Eyewitness Memory: The Misinformation Effect
http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/hoff.htm



Pre-Test



1Have you ever witnessed a crime?


2How accurately were you able to remember or identify the details of the crime?


3Are you aware of any recent events where convicted criminals have been released from prison because more recent evidence has proven they did not commit the crime?

Post-Test



4Witnesses can take in false information, such as a suggestion from another witness, as a true memory and use it to try to identify a witness.
A)True
B)False


5Approximately 20 percent of witnesses choose a person in a lineup who was put there by police as a known innocent person.
A)True
B)False


6Most eyewitnesses are generally on track about what the criminal looked like even if they don't pick the correct person from a lineup.
A)True
B)False





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