PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory, Recognition Memory, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Recall memory: reporting details of a previously witnessed event or person. Recognition memory: determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed. Unknowing participant views a critical event and is then asked questions of what happened. A witness"s recall can be examined for : amount of information reported, type of information reported, accuracy of information reported. Can have lineups of perps, have voice lineups or clothing lineups: can look at the accuracy of their decision, the types of errors made. Memory conformity: when what one witness reports influences what another witness reports. Misinformation effect: phenomenon where a witness who is presented with inaccurate information after an event will incorporate that misinformation into a subsequent recall task: also called post event information effect. Subjects asked a question about the leader of 4 or the leader of 12 recalled lower or higher amounts of demonstrators when followed up with 1 week later.