PSY 0182 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inattentional Blindness, Confabulation, Change Blindness
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Major stages: attention: selected and limited, encoding: putting info into memory, storage: retaining info and maintaining, retrieval: taking info from memory. Recall: is description that is not prompted. Recognition: occurs when asked to call upon. Common myth: memory is like a tape recorder. Truth: memory is reconstructive: we use schemas and scripts to fill in the gaps. Participants waited in an academic office that lacked a common element most commonly recalled the office contents however around 30% reported seeing an item that wasn"t there: this is called confabulation creating a false memory. Overall pretty good, but: confabulation false memory. We do not remember minute details of things even if they are highly common. System v. eliminator variables: system variable: under control of legal system. Police interview, judge as gatekeeper, etc: estimator variable: beyond control of legal system. Weapon focus: people pay more attention to the weapon than crime. Change blindness: more attention to action/movement than people.
