PSYCH 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Yield Sign, Survey Data Collection, False Memory
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Our past experiences are reconstructed imperfectly in the present. How fast were the cars going when they _______ each other: giving different words in the blank affects the response you get, saying smash = people react negatively, saying bump = people will react not as bad. A red datsun makes a turn and hits a pedestrian. Participants see either a stop or yield sign. Did another car pass the red datsun while it was stopped at the stop/yield sign . The drm procedure (deese, 1959, roediger & mcdermott, 1995) What makes this procedure interesting: memory illusions don"t just occur under conditions of uncertainty. Fluent retrieval of contextual associations gives rise to a feeling of conscious remembering : the fluency and generation heuristics. Both familiarity and recollection have heuristic bases. Did i turn the stove off: try to recall turning off the stove yes or no. Messing up the norms that are usually helpful for making remembering decisions .
