eyewitness
(noun)
Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
Examples of eyewitness in the following topics:
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Considerations for Eyewitness Testimony
- Eyewitness testimony has been considered a credible source in the past, but its reliability has recently come into question.
- The weapon-focus effect suggests that the presence of a weapon narrows a person's attention, thus affecting eyewitness memory.
- Trials may take many weeks and require an eyewitness to recall and describe an event many times.
- The accuracy of eyewitness memory degrades swiftly after initial encoding.
- Analyze ways that the fallibility of memory can influence eyewitness testimonies