Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyewitness Memory, Psych, Suggestibility

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The accuracy of everyday observation: binet (1900) The eyewitness reality experiment conducted in 1901. Cattell (1895: the accuracy of everyday observations, conducted experiments looking at what today would be called the psychology of eyewitness testimony, questions like: What was the weather like one week ago today? : key ndings was not only that students were inaccurate but they were often quite con dent in their answers despite the inaccuracy. Binet (1990s: suggestibility in children, studies by albert binet showed that they testimony provided by children was highly susceptible to suggestive questioning techniques, cps is trained to ask children questions properly. Sometimes when you ask questions to kids they think that it is part of their reality. Stern (1910: the eyewitness reality experiment , commonly used to this day to try and measure the accuracy of eyewitness memory, used a stage argument / confrontation between 2 students in his law class as one of the rst.

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