PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Leading Question, Ivory Tower
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Psy100h1 - lecture 13 - emotions and memory (cont. ) Yet, acknowledges that unconsciously he has prejudice against his own people. Memories can be bias, not always accurate. Our own confidence that information is accurate has a low correlation to its actual accuracy. Word list : influencing people to believe that words which were not on the list actually were, by asking words that fit in the same category. Study : took people who were 100% confident with their own memories and found that only 70% of people were right about their memories. Researchers have been able to induce people to recall complicated events from early in life that never actually happened, such as getting lost in a shopping mall. Implanting an image of someone"s face doing something that they never did and these people believed that it had actually occurred.
