Psychology 2031A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Information Processing, Prosopagnosia, Donald Thomson

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2031A/B
• Professor: Laura Gribble

Document Summary

Two main factors: eyewitness error #1, false confessions #2 around 70% involve an eye witness error. #1 cause of wrongful convictions are eye witness error behind wrongful convictions. Of these people wrongfully convicted are under 21 years old. 1/3 were under the age of 18 judges and juries don"t understand the error behind. Attention perception encoding perception processing working memory storage. Retrieval: getting info out information-processing approach to have a memory, pay attention, active paying attention allows brain to encode information limited ability to how much info we can take in encoding: info is manipulated. Working memory is affected by knowledge, the more you know, the easier to manipulate info remember. Long term: everything experienced is stored, how easily and successfully can we retrieve info (retrieval) will determine well we processed information. Bottom up: no context, nothing to guide their perception and information. Paid attention and tried to construct (encode)