PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eyewitness Memory, Social Influence, Social Proof
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Identify suspects: weapon-focus effect: overt presence of weapon interferes with memory acquisition, seeing weapons increases arousal and stress. Impairs ability to identity peripheral features (i. e. , suspect) Challenges in acquisition: cross-race memory bias: we"re less accurate at identifying people from other racial groups, mechanisms: Increased contact = automaticity: attention: what features do we attend to. In-group: how are his/her features different from other people in my group : out-group: how is this group"s features different form my group"s features? . In vs. out-group feature memory: that nose is a little more hooked than a normal european nose , this might identify an individual, that nose is a filipino nose, not a european nose , this can only identify a group. Challenge in storage: challenge: post-event information becomes integrated with original event memory, every remembering" modifies memory, post-event information can induce entirely new, fabricated memories.
