Contextualization.Definition of the word: To consider an idea, event, activity, etc. together with everything relating to it in order to understand it better
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ArtFor the Art portion of my project, I decided to curate a video of a mugging and put it in the context of my experiment. While it was originally intended for entertainment, or simply a cautionary tale, I used it for much more. What I liked about it was that the person who took it had a go pro on their head, making the event in first person and chaotic, quite like an actual crime. I then Asked my brother, Parker, to remember as much about it as possible to test his memory. Also, I created graphs to represent how Parker changed the details of the event below.
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Language ArtsFor Language Arts, I created a bibliography as a way of organizing my research. At first, all of my research was scattered, making it difficult to find facts that I was looking for. Once I started to make a bibliography, however, everything was neat and manageable. As for the aspect of contextualization, with almost every source I sited, I talked about how I can use the information I learned and put it into the context of my experiment so I could make it the best I could be.
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HistoryFor the history part of my project, I created a transcript of the interview I took. While this relates to writing, my annotation of it relates to my research of techniques used in past interviews. Examples of this include positive reinforcement, appeal to emotions, intimidation, and various methods of coercion. I take a lot of inspiration from this video in which the psychological coercion of a mentally limited suspect is on full display. Just like in this video, I push the idea of telling the truth when I did not get an answer that I wanted. This leads more suggestible people to think they need to change their answers to suit the needs of the interrogator. Here is a link to the full annotated script.
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Here Are Graphs Depicting The Changing of Details in The Interrogation
Parker's drawing of the "Perp" day two.
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Above, note how in his drawing the mugger is wearing sweats with his hoodie up. Here, he is riding a bike holding a knife. In the video, he was wearing a jacket and jeans with a scarf, riding a motorbike while holding a knife. Below is a picture of the same guy but with glasses on due to my coercion.
While getting Parker to change the ethnicity of the suspect proved challenging, with a little push he was willing to accuse this random Middle Eastern man of the act, even if the person below (the man who was on the video) looks nothing like him. This shows how even if someone may confidently say that an image of a person shown is, in fact, the perpetrator, this may not be the case.
Here is a sample of the transcript of the interrogation where I show Parker the random man's image.
Me: So, let's say the police found this man, right? This is the profile that I have of a man that I think fits your description.
So let's say the police found this man:
a Turkish man who immigrated to Argentina in his teens. He is a low level criminal who makes a living by selling stolen goods and selling them for cocaine. He often wears a hoodie and sweats in the winter time. When he is stealing from someone, he always chases them by a bicycle and robs them at knife point.
Would you tell the police this is the man who committed the crime so he can be put to justice?
Him: Yes
Me: You would?
Him: Yeah