PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Police Lineup, Recognition Memory, Free Recall
17 Feb 2018
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Perception: you need to see or hear the details of the environment. Encoding: this information gets encoded into your brain. A lot of info gets lost along the way. Recall memory: reporting details of previously witnessed event/person. What the suspect looked like based on what they saw. Recognition memory: reporting whether current information is the same as previous information (e. g. , lineups) Naturalistic environments: interviewing witnesses after a crime. Factors that want to be changed or manipulated. Estimator variables: variables that cannot be changed (age of witness, lighting, etc. ) System variables: variables that can vary (questioning techniques, lineup procedure, etc. ) Open ended (free narrative): recount without being prompted. Amount of information: how many descriptors of crime or suspect. Type of information: how many central details vs peripheral details. Accuracy of the information: percentage of correct descriptors. (cid:498)smashed(cid:499) vs. (cid:498)contacted(cid:499): experiment questioning participants of car crash. Misinformation effect: witness is provided with inaccurate information.
