(45)add to the collective pool of recalled evidentiary perceptions; nonetheless, the jurors’ abstraction processes further reduce the number of characteristics traceable to the number of characteristics traceable to the original event.
(50)Complication can arise from false abstractions at each stage. Studies have shown that witnesses recall having perceived incidents that are known to be absent from a given event. Conversely, jurors can remember
(55)hearing evidence that is unaccounted for in court transcripts.Explanations for these phenomena range from blas through prior conditioning or observer expectation to taully reportage of the event based on the event based on the
(60)constraints of alnguage. Aberrant abstractions in perception or deliberate, but reliability is nevertheiess diluted. Finally, deliberate untruthfulness has always
(65)been recognized as a risk of testimoniat evidence. Such intentionally false inaccuracies produced by the abstraction process.
1. In this passage, the author’s main purpose is to
(A) discuss a process that jeopardizes the famness of jury trials