PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Eyewitness Memory, List Of Memory Biases, Yield Sign
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Did you see the broken headlight more likely to say yes. Did you see a broken headlight? less likely to say yes: corrupt memory more easily when encountered in social situations. Ex. witnesses talking to one another after the crime. Not reinforcing common memories, but contaminates them. Reason: everyone notices different things and therefore remembers different things. Accuracy of memory drops when people discuss and shares their on version of memory. Photo spreads: jurisdiction lineups conducted with pictures, not with actual people standing behind one-way glass, people in the pictures dressed similar, photographed in similar circumstances. !1: one is the actual suspect, the others are foils / lters (people known to be innocent) Monday, march 6, 2017: police moves on if a witness identities a foil or no one. Mock witness: research subject who plays a witness during a study, can make errors in two ways.
