1. Weapon Focus

2. Weapon focus
“Weapon focus refers to the visual attention that eyewitnesses give to a perpetrator’s weapon during the course of a crime. It is expected that the weapon will draw central attention, thus decreasing the ability of the eyewitness to adequately encode and later recall peripheral details”
Steblay (1992)

3. Notes check and questions

4. A weapon focus experiment

5. Exercises to practice and deepen understanding
Linking study to background research, formulating hypotheses.
Analyse the study - design, key variables, controls.
Identify the flaw, improve the design.
Collate and analyse data.

6. Reflection What have happened/what have you learned?
What does it make you think/feel?
What are you going to do?