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•Retrieving details of an event or person
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Recall memory
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What is more difficult? recall memory or recongition memory?
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Recall because it is easier to know when you see it (often recognize people without knowing their names)
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Helps people recall information
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Cues
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4 Noteable findings from the Von Liszt experiment…
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- every witness report had error
- errors increased as situation became more arousing - most accurate still made errors on 26% of sig details - some students were inaccurate on up to 80% |
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•When investigating a crime we need to: x3
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–Develop leads
–Determine what happened
–Establish suspects
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Research into recall memory was interested in:
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- amount
- type - accuracy of info reported |
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How are police interviews conducted?
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1. ask witness to describe a narrative
2. Ask brief questions (How tall was he?) 3. ask broad question for additional info (Is there anythink else you remember?) |
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–Exposure to inaccurate information can affect a person’s memory
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Misinformation effect
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–First person to systematically study the misinformation effect
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Elizabeth loftus
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What did elizabeth loftus do?
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She conducted a series of studies that showed how memory is malleable
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What did Loftus and Palmer conclude?
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The words used can alter our memory of an event
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... can also affect a person’s memory about an event
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Presuppositions
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3 hypothesis that explain the misinformation effect
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- misinformation acceptance hypothesis
- source misattribution hypothesis - memory impairment hypothesis |
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–Don’t remember original detail
–Remember misinformation
–Report misinformation
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Misinformation acceptance hypothesis
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–Remember original detail
–Remember misinformation
–Confuse where each memory came from
–Choose the wrong memory (i.e., the misinformation)
–Report misinformation
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Source misattribution hypothesis
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