Hello,

This is the discussion board question:

"There are two kinds of remembering that are of interest to the detective: recall and recognition. Identify some common factors that can cause witness errors."

BELOW you will review the answer a classmate shared. Can you respond to the discussion post.

You can add comments, agree with him/her, summarise your own response to the question and relate it back to what him/her stated.

4-8 sentences is fine. Thank you!

Some common factors that can cause witness errors consist of sensory input, memory, and retrieval. Sensory input is "any information gathered through visual observation that's stored in memory". Sensory is more like the way you understand and observe surroundings. Memory is the way you store what was observed. For instance, everyone has their own way of perspective of what was seen or herd. Retrieval is the way that an individual can recover information thought a memory and explain it. The ability to explain to an induvial what was witnessed.

Osterburg,J. W.,Ward,R. H., &Miller,L. S.(2019).Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past(8th ed.).Routledge.https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780429535338