PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eyewitness Testimony, Childhood Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory
21 Jan 2018
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How reliable is it: recovered memory and false memory, childhood amnesia and our earliest memories, very long term and vintage memories, autobiographical memory, flashbulb memories. Factors that influence eyewitness testimony: own race bias, photo bias can be caused by source misattribution. Juries put too much weight on eyewitness memories: more than 100000 cases per year in usa based solely on eyewitness testimony, estimated that 10000 are wrongly convicted, hypnosis does not aid recall- increases confidence rather than accuracy. Sleep paralysis associated with hallucinations and false memories: penfield stimulated false memories, stimulated areas that elicited memories Part 3 childhood amnesia: rmb as far back as 3 or 4 years old only. Less structured before age 4 - school: unable to speak, brain not well developed - Part 4 very long term and vintage memories. Part 5 autobiographical memory forgot what we witness,p. Recall used tiv: we recall and then alter memory, every time we recall.
