Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Elizabeth Loftus, Richard Hauptmann, Recognition Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

One of the earliest and most widely studied topics in forensic psychology. Recall memory: reporting details of a previously witnessed event or person: ex) describing what the offender did and what he looked like. Recognition memory: determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed: ex) hearing a set of voices and identifying the perpetrators voice. Perception/attention stage encoding stage short-term memory long-term memory retrieval stage. They can use police reports, or examine witnesses in naturalistic environments by accompanying police to crime scenes and interviewing witnesses after the police have done their job. The laboratory simulation: the most common paradigm used to study eyewitness issues. Dependant variables procedure used: 3 general dependant variables in eyewitness studies, recall of event/crime. Open-ended recall: witnesses are asked to either write or orally state all they remember about the event without the officer (or experimenter) asking questions: also known as free narrative, recall of perpetrator.