Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eyewitness Testimony, Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Kathleen McKeown

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Elizabeth loftus (video) exam*: leading researching in the lled of eyewitness memory, misinformation e ect, the case of steve titus. Restaurant manager who was pulled over because his car and titus resembled a raper and he was convicted of rape because the victim said that she was certain that he was the rapist even though he wasn"t. Titus contacted a journalist and the journalist found the real rapist and titus was set free. Titus led a lawsuit against the police and everyone he felt failed him. Titus died of a stress related heart attack: elizabeth studies false memories. The role of memory: eyewitness testimony relies on: Encoding, storing, and retrieving information: storing memories requires several steps including: Attention, encoding, short-term memory, long-term memory: not all memories pass successfully through these stages and problems may occur at each stage, as time goes by its harder and harder for us to remember details. Their emotional response stronger = better recall.