1. Discuss the reliability and factors involved in eyewitness testimony.

2. What can you say about his opinion about reliability in eyewitness testimonty? "Eyewitness testimonies are a subject akin to a double-edged sword. While they are paramount to the process of effective communication, perspective comparison, and collective recollection with a variety of purposes. With that in mind, reliability of eyewitness testimonies are dependent upon several factors. Those include factors such as the level of the witness's alertness, the time of day, visibility, time passed since the events, emotions experienced, trauma, biases, and memory. Given the multitude of factors, let us break it down as we work through an event. If a witness were to see another committing a violent act, they could be affected by their previous experiences or biases about violent. How well they viewed the occurrence or are able to maintain a recollection of due to an increase in adrenaline and affected alertness could all affect the retelling. If they are unable to share during an effective duration due to the shocking of their senses, the witness could experience memory fog or have an inability to share without reexperiencing the trauma. As the factors flow through as a negative context stemming from the lack of insurance of accuracy, eye witness testimonies can be either positively or negatively impactful due to the nature of their origin and accuracy." 3. What can you say about his opinion about reliability in eyewitness testimonty? " Eyewitness testimony is not as reliable as most people think. In the past, most people would have believed that eyewitness testimony was a true way to know exactly what had happened. They have come to realize that the majority of the time people get things wrong. For example, it has been proven that people can not describe with accuracy the color of someone's hair or the type of clothes that they were wearing. At the moment it is hard to remember every detail of everything and everyone around. Sometimes we think we can remember but it is not possible to remember it all."