Memoria de testigos: recuerdo de acciones e información descriptiva de un suceso

Abstract

Eyewitness memory: Recall of actions and descriptive details of an event. This study examines the recall of actions and descriptive details about a negative emotional event and the ability of eyewitness to predict the accuracy of their testimony. Participants were shown a film of an armed robbery. After wards, they answered 32 open-ended questions about the film. Recall accuracy was better for central action details than peripheral action details, whereas for descriptive details no such difference was observed. The extent of the confidence-accuracy relationship is not very high and it depends substantially on the statistical procedures used.