PSYCH230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chinese Whispers, Yield Sign, Meh
24 Dec 2015
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How good is eyewitness testimony: handgun identification less than half is right on recalling which gun was being pointed. Impact of mistaken eyewitness is the strongest conviction: 3 stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval, encoding problems. Everything else meh: storage problems. You keep retelling the story you affirm what you say increasing our confidence. Context and surroundings help (taking test in room. Black guy and a white male holding knife broken. Authorities may accidently relay to what they want the witness to say. Children and memory: memory biases in children are more likely and more problematic. Children are easy targets: especially with respect t sexual abuse, more suggestible and open to induction. Think hard of what happened to you. When interviewed by a new adult, 58% produced false detailed story and fooled the interviewer. To your recollection, it isn"t fooling a researcher because its real to you. False memory controversy: the courage to heal (bass & davis, 1988)
