PSY 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eyewitness Memory, Recognition Memory, Free Recall
11 Apr 2020
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The role of memory: memory process has several stages. She is not paying attention to her surroundings (factor: inattention). Unexpectedly, there is a brief interaction between her and an unfamiliar male (factors: unexpectedness; amount of time to view environmental details). Amanda is now a witness, and she is interviewed with several other people in the cafe by police (factor: hearing others describe the same environmental details she saw). The police officer asks amanda a few brief questions (factor: the wording of the questions). Amanda is called six months after the crime to examine a lineup (factors: the amount of time elapsed between having witnessed the event and having to retrieve the information; type of lineup procedure used). Amanda is confident when she identifies the perpetrator (factor: relation between confidence and accuracy) Memory can change each time we retrieve the event: some parts of the event may be embellished or guessed at because we cannot remember all the details.
