PSYC 3020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Recognition Memory, Dependent And Independent Variables

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

Document Summary

Encoding is the attention to detail when you see something. Memory can often change each time you try and recall an event. Recall memory: reporting details of a previously witnessed event or person. Recognition memory: refers to determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed. A unknowing participant views a critical event then asked to describe the target involved. Estimator variables: variables that are present at the time of the crime and that cannot be changed. System variables: variables that can be manipulated it increase or decrease eyewitness accuracy. Recall event, perpetrator and recognition of the perpetrator. Open-ended recall: witnesses are asked to either write or orally state all they remember about event without the of cer (also free narrative) Direct question recall: witnesses are asked a series of speci c questions about the crime. Can be measured by accuracy of decision and types of errors made.