A. While controlled experimental studies suggest that violence results in better witness accurancy, field studies of real- life witnesses are exposed to highly violent events do not give very accurate testimony.
B. The phenomenon of ‘weapons focus’ occur only when the central detail is a gun.
C. Although it is interesting to understand the impact on witness memory of factors such as the type of crime, it is not critical because what is encoded during acquisition does not from the basis for what is stored in memory and eventually retrieved when giving testimony.
D. None of the above.
Correct Answer: None of the above. ✔
Last Updated: August 29, 2023