Eyewitness. What actually happened?

Description

Ten people are asked to re-create, from memory, an abstract painting they viewed two months earlier. A fascinating psychological exercise, to be sure-but the experiment will soon become much more than a session with paints and brushes. This program documents the volunteers' unwitting immersion in a staged crime, which they witness during a "break" in what they think is the real test. When a lunch-time pub patron is apparently murdered and the Greater Manchester police department invades the premises, each test subject must summon his or her recollections of the ordeal. Viewers discover how and why these memories prove disturbingly unreliable.

Runtime

59 min

Series

Subjects

Genre

Date of Publication

[2010], c2009

Database

Films on Demand

Direct Link

Similar Films

Flawed Forensics
Effective instructional strategies
Memory masters. How savants store information
Teach Me Different! Problem-Solving and Self-Advocacy
Dyslexia. Unwrapped gift
Criminal Court Process and Procedure
Goodbye classroom, hello crime. Forensics school. Part 5
The Study of memory
The secret life of the brain. A world of their own. The teenage brain. Episode 3
Balancing learning standards with diverse learning needs
Multiple intelligences. Other styles of learning
To catch a liar. Alternatives to the polygraph
Forensic science in action. From crime scene to courtroom
Scaffolding Self-Regulated Learning in Primary Classrooms
No child left behind. Case of city springs