PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autobiographical Memory, Recovered-Memory Therapy, Hot Air Balloon

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: richard wright

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Ch 8 long-term memory retrieval (part 2 of last week) Part 5- autobiographical memory (things that happen to you) Own-race bias: tent to remember people of our own race, better then other races. If they had to pick out person from photo line up, its easier if the person was our own race, would pick it out easier: more activation in brain if looking at our own race. Just seeing someone can confuse you: if people see a photo of so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho is(cid:374)"t the (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al, after the (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e . The(cid:455) will forget where they saw this person and misattribute it as the criminal. Juries put too much weight on eye-witness memories. More then 100,000 cases per year in the us are based only on eye witness testimony. 10,000 are wrongly convicted because of eye witness testimony. Elisabeth loftus- (cid:373)ade lots of e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts for e(cid:455)e (cid:449)it(cid:374)ess testi(cid:373)o(cid:374)(cid:455)"s.