PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Interview, Recognition Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

Document Summary

Perception (how information is perceived from environment what is seen and heard) encode short term memory (must be rehearsed so it stays in memory) long term memory retrieval. Sometimes information doesn"t get encoded properly and incorrect information or lack of information is encoded to short term memory. Memory is not like a video recorder many things are lost in the process and memory is fragile. Recall memory: reporting what they observed from memory. Recognition memory: recognizing something and comparing it to what they have seen before (e. g. looking at line up and identifying the suspect they remember seeing) Different research methods: archival data, naturalistic environments, laboratory simulation (most common) allows for control of variables, participants view critical event and at a later time are asked about what they observed (example) Estimator variables: cannot be changed from what is already existing (e. g. age, height)