I found the information written by students about factors affecting the encoding of information by witness interesting. I agree with them that information stored in sensory memory is hard to remember. According to research byCowan (2017), data stored in sensory memory last for a short time, and it cannot be easily recognized. Consequently, the witness cannot be able to give enough information as they hardly remember the actual happening of what they are required to reveal. To improve this, the witness should be asked a question at the scene instead of at the police station.

Some students also argue that witness may not remember information especially when they are under the control of wine and euphoria of being with friends. I found this to be accurate as alcohol always changes the people’s way of thinking; hence they cannot give the exact account of a past event(Hagsand et al., 2017). However, being with friends do not have an impact on remembering information in a person. The time also affects how a person recognizes information as occurrences in the dark might not be remembered easily as the vision finds it hard to see correctly. To counter this, a witness can convert words into images for easy recalling.

References

Cowan, N. (2017). The many faces of working memory and short-term storage. Psychonomic Bulletin & review, 24(4).

Hagsand, A. V., Roos af Hjelmsäter, E., Granhag, P. A., Fahlke, C., & Söderpalm Gordh, A. (2017). Witnesses stumbling down memory lane: The effects of alcohol intoxication, retention interval, and repeated interviewing. Memory, 25(4), 531-543.

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