Psychology 2990A/B Chapter : Textbook summary of 2990. Perfect complementary to your readings!
13 Dec 2011
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Criminal someone gets arrested and the crown attorney"s office decides if there"s a case. Jurors overestimate the accuracy of the eyewitness, especially under difficult viewing conditions. Mistaken eyewitnesses are responsible for more wrongful convictions than all others combined. Acquisition, storage and retrieval are three stages of memory processing. Acquisition is the process whereby people notice and pay attention to information in the environment, acquiring only a subset of the info available. Witnesses overestimated the length of the incident. Bystanders tend to remember the suspects features better than the victims. Our theories of the world and people in it influence what we notice and remember. Own-race bias: people are better at recognizing faces of their own race. Storage is the process by which people store in memory information they have acquired. Reconstructive memory: distortion of memories by new information after an event occurs. Misleading questions cause a problem with source monitoring, the process where people.
