GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Donald Thomson, Memory Rehearsal, Long-Term Memory
13 Mar 2018
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"about how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?" Response of subjects when asked one week later did you see broken glass? there was no broken glass. The change of just one word had a significant effect on memory error. A term referring to memory errors that result from some form of post- event misinformation. Is the old completely erased or is it made inaccessible. The old memory did not exist in the first place. Old is not destroyed; at test a choice made whether to use old or new memory. Mere exposure, leading questions, can lead to confident false identification. Can lead to thinking you experienced the event. View mug shots of possible four subjects (not the same people) 29% of subjects chose people from the mug shots. Intro psych class viewed 10 "criminals" fro 25 seconds with intent to remember them.
