PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Police Lineup, Long-Term Memory, Recognition Memory
22 Apr 2016
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75% of wrongful convictions in the us have occurred because of a false identification by an eyewitness. To remember something ,you need to perceive it or see it (the details) Long-term can be accessed + restored as needed. May pay attention to some parts + not others, might not be able to retrieve all of it from the long-term memory. Memory is not like a video recorder: the details that make it into long-term memory depend on each of these steps + memories can change each time they are retrieved. Recall memory: reporting details of previously witnessed event/person. What the suspect looks like based on what they saw + can remember, remembering something without cues. Recognition memory: reporting whether current information is the same as previous information. Estimator variables: variables that cannot be changed, factors present at the time of the crime.
