ENTM 12800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eyewitness Memory, Suggestibility

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Entomology
• Course: ENTM 12800
• Professor: Lauren Jennings

Document Summary

1. failure to remember a detail it is omitted: commission, presence of an unwanted or inaccurate memory. The seven sins of memory: bias (error of omission) 1. in uence of beliefs, expectations and desires on what we remember: transience (error of omission) 1. tendency to lose access to information across time, essentially forgetting: persistence (error of commission. 1. the continued but unwanted automatic retrieval of memories: misattribution (error of commission, memory is correct but ascribed to the wrong source or contact, source memory is ou. 3. repeatedly imagining an event increases the likelihood of having a false memory: absentmindedness (error of omission) 1. failure to encode information obtained due to insuf cient attention: errors of attention > can be due to very stressful events, levine and edelstein (2009) attention narrows attention to the central detail the. Goal : examples, goals: not get shot, suggestibility (c)