Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alex Morgan, Reid Technique, Tangled

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Flashbulb memories - assasination of jfk/9/11 etc. intense moments shared by people around the world and stays in memory due to intensity: morgans best friend was 100% sure he was beside morgan and kept telling the cops that. Cox was not offered any refreshments and was treated as hostile/as a criminal: bad cop enters, starts threatening cox and treating him like shit, fabricates evidence. False confessions: research suggests that the reid model may also elicit false confessions. Implications of false confessions: genuine false confessions still likely to be viewed as evidence of guilt by jurors for 3 main reasons, difficulty with self-incrimination explanation, difficulty distinguishing true vs. false confessions, difficulty with form and content similarities. If you say you committed a murder and confess they will presume guilt, and it is hard to look at someone in that way and ever look at them differently.