PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Interview, Recovered-Memory Therapy, Eyewitness Identification
17 Dec 2016
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Memory is better for meaningful significant features than for details. What does the penny look like reconstructive nature of memory. Memory is often influenced by knowledge, previous. Way in which a question is worded can influence what is remembered: due to reconstructive processes at retrieval (e. g. , filling in of details) Memory for event can be influenced by misleading post-event info (info given after the event. Neutral condition: did another car pass the red datson when it was stopped at the intersection? . Misleading information replaces (overwrites) original memory, which is permanently lost. Unlikely explanation (mccloskey and zaragoza, 1985: a) see event: yield sign, b) receive misinformation, as the car passed the . Participant believes the info in the postevent is true because questioner is a person of authority: blocking theory. Original and misleading info coexist in memory. Because misleading info is more recent, it obscures the original memory: source monitoring theory.
