PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mousetrap, Suggestibility
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Memory is fallible, and can be influenced. It is not at all like a video camera! What speed were cars going when smashed into each other, versus sped into each other. Gonna be faster if you said smashed . Even if there was no stop sign, will be more likely to have image of stop. Children are particularly susceptible, probs. sign in head in a week. Issues with source memory (knowing where a piece of information. Study: watch video, go talk to person who summarizes it. This interview then says oh it turns out that summarizer person, was incorrect. So we need you to help us decide; do you remember certain things from the movie, or from the summarizer telling you it happened. Number of times the person was incorrect, wrong . Interviewers hold a priori beliefs about the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, which can influence interview. Rough playing, like spraying doll in face with water.
