PY 377 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Postdiction, Pubic Hair, Elizabeth Loftus

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 377
• Professor: Karen Salekin

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September 26, 2017: to process information we have to perceive a stimulus then retain it in our memory, errors and wrong memories come up along the way. If a weapon is present all of our attention is turned to the weapon one: the threatening aspect of a weapon draws our attention away from the physical features of the perpetrator, weapon presence can also affect hearing. Storage: refers to how well we retain information, memory loss is rapid. Retrieval: wording of questions can influence retrieval. In one instance a judge was kidnapped and attacked and picked a person who had appeared in their court years earlier for a similar crime: this is called unconscious transference. Age and gender of eyewitness: women are better at recognizing female faces and men are better at recognizing male and women faces equally, older and younger eyewitnesses make more errors than younger or middle aged adults.