Psychology 2031A/B Lecture Notes - Eidetic Memory, Deterrence Theory, Procedural Justice

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2031A/B
• Professor: Gribble

Document Summary

To be accurate in an ew testimony 3 stages: acquisition ppl notice & pay attn to the info in the envir. Bc ppl cannot perceive everything happening around them, they acquire only a subset of the info available in the envir. Crimes = occur quick, unexpectedly, under poor viewing conditions. Own race bias finding ppl = better recognizing faces w/in own race. Ppl see what they expect to see. Change blindness: storage ppl store memory they have acquired. Reconstructive memory memories of an event become distorted by info encounter after the event has occurred. Source monitoring ppl try to identify the source of their memoires. Mislead q"s can cause ppl to report seeing things that weren"t actually there: retrieval recall. The best guess problem in lineup identification = source of error. Ve effects of verbalization: how to avoid the best guess problem: Ensure everyone in lineup resembles witness"s description of suspect.