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Andersons cases was not the only case were a person was convicted of a crime and was later exonerated, when the DNA evidence came to light. According to Clare, 2012, Cornelius Dupree was in prison for 30 years in Texas, for a rape he did not commit, but one witness identified him as the criminal. Derrick Williams spent 18 years of his life behind bars for a rape charge and was later exonerated due to DNA. Johnny Pinchback was released from a Texas prison after 27 years behind bars. He was proven not guilty by the DNA evidence that proved the witness had misidentified him as the perpetrator. Alvin Jardine also spent 20 years of his life in prison (Clare, 2012, para. 1). These are just a few cases that prove that eyewitness statement are not …show more content…

In Gittins, Paterson, and Sharpe (2006) study they tested how traumatic situations effect the way they remember things. The participants of the study were shown a video of what happened after a car accident. The video showed many hurt victims and at the end a dead body with a mangled face. The participants had a task of writing everything they remembered about the video. Then they filled out a Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, which assess the participants lever of stress, anxiety and depression. For the Memory measure section, the participants were given a questionnaire that were structured in the form of a cross-examination style questions. The study showed that when the participant frequently recalled the event both lead to an increase in accuracy and a likelihood of developing false memories. And avoidance of the event had lead to a decrease in memory. This research suggests that some PTSD symptoms can help memory recall and others can prevent it (Gittins, Paterson, and Sharpe, 2006, p. 25). PTSD is not proven to help memories, yet it is not proven to harm it. It can be something that interferes with memories, in some cases it can lead to misidentification of suspects involved in traumatic

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This means that individuals under stress may recall events less accurately, but still have high confidence in their recollections. This is evident with eyewitness Maillard as she was present during the shooting, which means it is plausible that she may have experienced trauma and even stress during the investigations as she had to live through the traumatic experience again, especially when telling officers her experience. This might have played a role in her judgement and accuracy of recalling what happened that night, but she was also quite confident that it

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In preparation for trial, Ken Anderson had immersed himself in the details of the case. The district attorney knew he was up against formidable opponents: both defense attorneys had impressive track records, and Allison had been one of Anderson’s own law professors. Addressing the five-man, seven-woman jury that morning, the district attorney laid out the state’s theory of the case, arguing that on the night of his birthday, Michael had worked himself into a rage after Christine rejected his advances. “He had rented a videotape, a very sexually explicit videotape, and he viewed that sexually explicit videotape, and he got madder and madder,” Anderson said. “He got some sort of blunt object, probably a club, and he took that club and he went

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Additionally, they can be classified into four categories: intrusion, avoidance, changes in cognition and mood, and changes in arousal and reactivity. Symptoms that fall into the intrusion category deal with reoccurring thoughts, memories, dreams, and flashbacks of the event. These visions can feel so realistic that the person might feel like they are reliving the experience. The avoidance category contains symptoms such as avoiding reminders of the traumatic event such as people, places, and objects, avoiding remembering or thinking about the event, and not talking about what occurred or how they feel. Furthermore, PTSD causes alterations in cognition and mood which affect the person’s ability to remember important parts of the event and distorts beliefs themself or others.

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memories the method can be used in psychological institutions, to help those whom are traumatized to stifle the memory and prevent it from affecting their future behaviors. Additionally, a better grasp of how memory, is encoded or lost will provide better aid to those with disabilities linked with memory. Flashbulb memories are defined as memories of emotionally significant events that people usually remember with more vivid details and accuracy than normal events (King, 2013). Psychologists Lanciano, Curci, and Semin (2010) conducted two studies investigating the accuracy and the amount of details remember of flashbulb memories, in which they determined those placed under stressful and highly emotional conditions do in fact recall the event

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Hyperarousal creates a stress-induced dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system and the amygdala, generating agitation, anxiety, startle reflex, and irritability (Cozolio, 2010). Virginia has anxiety, which is the source of her panic attacks. Intrusion can manifest itself as flashbacks because the stressful experience has broken into conscious awareness resulting in the re-experiencing of trauma (Cozolio, 2010). The death of Virginia’s son has brought back flashbacks of her older brother being killed in Vietnam. The corticohippocampal is unable to contextualize emotional, sensory, and somatic memories within the autobiographical memory causing an individual to have no sense of the trauma’s time or place (Cozolio, 2010).

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t be re-experienced through nightmares, unwelcome memories, anxiety or depression due to unwanted reminders and so on, the traumatic stress must be stimulated by trauma-related thoughts, feelings and reminders, the trauma must cause negative feelings of guilt, shame, isolation and blame as well as loss of memory relating to the event and the patient may be easily

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In the experiment, both the control and the experimental group were shown videos of combat scenes and later asked to recall specific details of what happened. Significantly, they found that those subjects with PTSD formed specifically visual false memories at a much higher rate than the control group (Moradi et al, 2015). If these patients’ minds are more susceptible to the creation of false memories, then this creates a problem in which the illusion of recovered memories can persist given that those with PTSD might seek out therapies that involve methods to recover memories of

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth ed.) (DSM-5) defines PTSD in people over six years of age similarly to Charuvastra and Cloitre’s (2008) study, except it added the following: “negative alterations in cognitions and moods associated with the traumatic event(s)….[and m]arked alterations in arousal and activity associated with the traumatic event(s)” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Closer to the purpose of this article, the author shall include other specifics to PTSD such as derealization, depersonalization, and dissociative

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Events are what start the process of developing a memory, and consequently, the first step in restoring memory is our senses. If our senses are not working properly, then there is no way we can form a memory. This phenomenon is most easily demonstrated in war. As an overdose of adrenaline and stress often courses through the veins of soldiers, commonly resulting in the health condition known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD’s various symptoms all come from the severe delay in their memory, and can also be seen in victims of childhood abuse, rape, political violence, and the Holocaust.

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