PSYC 3430H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eyewitness Memory, Change Blindness, Leading Question

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430H
• Professor: Nader Rebecca

Document Summary

After 10 15 seconds, people carrying a door pass in front of the participant, blocking their view. About 50% of participants failed to notice the switch! Failing to notice apparently obvious changes in a scene change group change. As long as the encoding matches (ex; two construction workers) less likely to notice individual change. The unduly optimistic belief that one is very rarely affected by change blindness. People underestimate the importance of fixating in order to detect changes. Factors reducing the accuracy of eyewitness testimony o o o o. Eyewitnesses generally are taken off guard by the crime. The criminal actions are often brief and swift. Asked to detect violations of rules o o o o o o o o o. Princeton students detected twice as many violations by dartmouth than did dartmouth students. Schemas for bank robbery: expectation for how certain events are supposed to go. Swedish and immigrant students watched a simulated robbery, which showed a knife-wielding burglar.