1. Ch 12: Social Psych & Law Part 1: Nov. 29, 2010

2. Juries Use of intuition vs. scientific jury selection Death Qualified Juries – How are these juries used? – Ellsworth’s research on support of the death penalty:

3. Interrogations & Confessions Impact of social influence What promotes false confessions? – Compliance – Internalization

4. Eyewitness Memory The case of Jennifer Thompson’s assault Research on memory: 3 important stages – 1) Acquisition Impact of stress on memory acquisition – Social perception & the unexpected - Impact of weapons Impact of race – Own-race bias:

5. 2) Storage: – Impact of time – Loaded questions & the misinformation effect: Loftus’ research: What is the misinformation effect? What is ‘source monitoring error’? Children’s memories & storage -

6. 3) Retrieval – – Lineup format: Gary Wells’ research on lineups: How to best construct lineups? – Similarity of lineup to witness description – – Sequential or simultaneous lineups? – Use of composite face programs to generate sketches -

7. Retrieval (cont.) Impact of instructions are given to the eyewitness: How does a cognitive interview work? – Would it affect retrieval?