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Eyewitness Testimony
This exercise asks you to consider the problems of eyewitness testimony.
1. Eyewitnesses to crimes are not always reliable; they think they remember the facts about an event, yet they make errors. Describe three psychological factors that might account for such errors.
2. If you were a police officer, lawyer, or prosecutor who had the job of interrogating witnesses and you wanted to increase eyewitness accuracy, what are two things you might do?
3. In general, how would a 10-year-old child be a more reliable eyewitness regarding the facts of an event than a 40-year-old adult, and vice versa? Why?
4. We are all eyewitnesses to our own lives, and we are not completely accurate in what we remember. Which of your autobiographical memories do you think might be somewhat distorted or inaccurate? Why?
Theories of Forgetting
Choose one recent situation in which you forgot (and later remembered) something important and describe this situation. Using the grid below, show how each of these theories of forgetting would explain your memory lapse:
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THEORY
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DEFINITION OF THEORY
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WHY YOU FORGOT
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HOW YOU COULD HAVE AVOIDED FORGETTING
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Levels of Processing
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Decay
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Interference
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Cue Dependent Forgetting
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Analyze the inclusions and exclusions of gross income
: Conduct basic tax research and tax planning on individual federal taxation issues - Determine how to minimize individual income tax within specific risk and legal parameters.
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List two economically important activities not captured
: List two economically important activities not captured in GDP. How can externalities cause increases in GDP to not adequately reflect increases in wellbeing?
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Describe the key characteristics of a stakeholder
: Describe key characteristics of a stakeholder and determine all the stakeholders within the PharmaCARE scenario. Analyze human rights issues presented by PharmaCARE's treatment of Colberia's indigenous population versus that of its executives.
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Suppose that marr utility function for wegmans
: Suppose that Marr's utility function for Wegmans' ice cream (W) and Tops' ice cream (T) is U= W+T. The price of Wegmans' ice cream is $5 and the price of Tops' ice cream is $4.
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Describe three psychological factors
: Eyewitnesses to crimes are not always reliable; they think they remember the facts about an event, yet they make errors. Describe three psychological factors that might account for such errors
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Whether definitions are stipulative or lexical - football
: Determine whether the following definitions are stipulative, lexical, precising, theoretical, or persuasive.- "Football" means a sport in which modern-day gladiators brutalize one another while trying to move a ridiculously shaped "ball" from one e..
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Trace the constitutional revision effort
: Trace the constitutional revision effort from 1971-1975. Pay particular attention to why the process failed. In your judgment, does Texas need a new constitution? Why or why not?
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Whether definitions are stipulative or lexical - glasstooth
: Determine whether the following definitions are stipulative, lexical, precising, theoretical, or persuasive.- Glasstooth" means an electronic device worn like a pair of glasses that instantly flashes text messages to the recipient.
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Firm employment and capital stock
: In which direction will the substitution effect change the firm's employment and capital stock?
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