Being a witness/ Memory and Attention
Factors that affect eyewitness memories.
What is stress, concentration, and distractions.
The BCE paintings and prehistoric rock carvings had?
What is fingerprints?
Purpose behind seperating witnesses.
What is preventing corroberation on a story.
The Innocence project's goals.
What is exonerating criminals using DNA evidence.
What can affect a persons memory AFTER the fact.
What is bias, personal beleifs, prejuduces, and motives.
William Nichol invented this in 1828.
What is the polarizing light microscope.
Patterns used to search for evidence.
What is grid, linear, quadrant/ zone, and spiral.
The founders of the Innocense Project.
Who are Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck?
Difference between Episodic and Semantic memory.
What is thought dependant episodes/ events (episodic) versus independent and maintains records and logical inputs (semantic).
In 1903 the New York State Prison started using this system for criminal identification.
What is fingerprinting?
Reason for letting wet, biological evidence to air dry before packaging.
What is preventing DNA corrosion and preventing mold from growing.
The goal of a Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.
What is analyzing samples of DNA to generate a DNA profile of a suspect?