AC3.1- Examine information for validity. Exam Questions With Correct Answers A+

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AC3.1- Examine information for validity.
Exam Questions With Correct Answers A+


What is validity? - Answer✔Evidence that is being used is truthful, reliable and correct

What things affect validity? - Answer✔Bias
Opinion
Circumstances
Currency
Accuracy
EVIDENCE - Answer✔

What does the CPS need evidence to be? - Answer✔Admissible
Reliable
Credible
What can distort the validity of evidence? - Answer✔Opinion and accuracy

Eyewitness testimony- Loftus EWT can be affected by factors such as - Answer✔-Time the
event took place
-Whether they discussed what they saw
-How long ago they witnessed it
-The way questions about the event are put to court
EWT: What affects the validity - Answer✔Circumstances the event happened

Expert witnesses: What do jurors believe? - Answer✔Experts opinion is especially credible and
give it great weight when reaching a verdict
Expert witnesses: Reduction in validity - Answer✔If an expert is biased or incompetent this can
undermine the validity of information
Expert witnesses: Bad expert witness example - Answer✔Roy Meadows- bad statistics
TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS - Answer✔

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