Question

What could cause a witness to misremember an event?

Answer 1

Answer:

fright, trauma, not having payed enough attention, etc

Answer 2

Loftus also developed the misinformation effect paradigm, which holds that after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event. According to Loftus, an eyewitness's memory of an event is very flexible due to the misinformation effect.

But here are some of the less obvious factors that have led eyewitnesses to make mistakes:

• Stress.
• Presence of a weapon.
• Confidence level.
• Cross-racial identification.
• Pressure to choose.
• Influence after the fact.
• Transference.
• Multiple perpetrators.

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