1 Having read Cara Laney’s article — which focuses on how and when eyewitness testimony can be less than believable — now work through the following questions. You may want to discuss your answers with your fellow students in small groups, or you may prefer simply to discuss the questions in a whole group plenary.
2 Cara Laney highlights a range of different reasons as to how and why eyewitness testimony may be unreliable. Before we examine some of these in more detail, it is useful just to stand back for a moment and ask yourself what is meant by the term ‘eyewitness testimony’. For example, does this term refer only to accounts that are presented in a court of law? What about police interviews, for example? What forms of testimony would they include? Consider the following:
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