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Eyewitness : what actually happened?
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- Summary
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Ten people are asked to re-create, from memory, an abstract painting they viewed two months earlier. A fascinating psychological exercise, to be sure-but the experiment will soon become much more t...
Ten people are asked to re-create, from memory, an abstract painting they viewed two months earlier. A fascinating psychological exercise, to be sure-but the experiment will soon become much more than a session with paints and brushes. This program documents the volunteers' unwitting immersion in a staged crime, which they witness during a "break" in what they think is the real test. When a lunch-time pub patron is apparently murdered and the Greater Manchester police department invades the premises, each test subject must summon his or her recollections of the ordeal. Viewers discover how and why these memories prove disturbingly unreliable.
Details
- Creator
- Open University
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781616167004
- OCLC
- ocn695008272
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Jan. 28, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Eyewitness: As Good as a Guilty Verdict (1:13) -- Devlin Report: Visual Identification Under Scrutiny (1:07) -- Non-Conscious Reconstruction (1:11) -- Manchester Police Experiment (0:50) -- Man on the Street Memory Test (0:56) -- Meet the Study Participants (1:11) -- The Experts (1:00) -- Staging the Crime (0:29) -- Mental Representation of Experience (0:40) -- Errors in Memory (1:14) -- Interpreting Experience (1:05) -- High Stakes Recall (2:02) -- Witnessing a Staged Crime (4:45) -- Police Arrive at the Pub (1:25) -- Initial Police Interviews (1:03) -- Gathering Initial Testimony (1:31) -- Briefing the Interviewers (1:43) -- Modern Interviewing Techniques (1:03) -- Fragility of Memory (2:00) -- "Chinese Whispers" (1:39) -- "Chinese Whispers": Interpreting the Results (2:03) -- Contaminating Memory: Past Police Methods (1:33) -- Nature of Memory (0:47) -- Cognitive Interviewing (0:58) -- Eyewitness: Cognitive Interviews (1:49) -- Cognitive Interviews: Narrowing the Focus (1:04) -- Cognitive Reinstatement (1:17) -- Witness Recall: Problematic Memory (1:22) -- Influences on Memory: Values and Stereotyping (1:05) -- Second Day of Interviews (1:06) -- Variations in Memory (1:36) -- Confused Memories (1:24) -- Inventing Memories (1:43) -- Contextual Reinstatement (1:33) -- Which Memories are Accurate? (0:54) -- Making Sense of Memories: Individualized Process (1:46) -- Cognitive Interviews: Interpreting Results (1:02) -- Police Analysis Complete (3:04) -- Eyewitness Accounts vs. Videotape of Crime (1:01)