PSYC 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hot Air Balloon, Guided Imagery, American Psychological Association
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Criminal profiling and psychological autopsies midterm april 23. "memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin" "the difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant" While tapping our memories, we filter or fill in missing pieces of information to make our recall more coherent. Misinformation effect: incorporating misleading information into one"s memory of an event. Eyewitnesses reconstruct their memories when questioned about the event. Misinformation slipped in (as might happen in a police interview) Police interviews should not include leading questions. Group b (smashed into) reported more broken glass than group a (hit). The word used in the question also affected estimates of speed : Unfolded in the 1990s in therapy, adult victims recover memories of having been abused during childhood charges brought against incredulous parents guilty verdict.
