Psychology 3313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grocery Store
8 Feb 2018
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Leading cause of innocent people being wrongly convicted. Condition 3- eyewitness with 20/400 vision - physical + poor vision 68% Grocery store was robbed and owner shot. Acquisition (encoding) e. g. , schemas influence how information is processed. We only encode a small amount of all the stimuli around us. Encode what you pay attention to what stands out. Encoding short term long term (may not make it here) post-event misinformation. Did you see the gun? you"re telling them there was a gun not from their memory. Forgot the source of the info - police told you there was a gun not your memory. If we hear info counter to our memory after the crime - it confuses us. Retrieval e. g. , best guess problem with police lineups looks most like the criminal, the best fit, not the actual person. Recall (facts about crime scene) vs recognition (identify criminal)
