PSY328H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Identification, Yield Sign
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Biases can occur: eye witness identification. Memory construction it is surprisingly easy to distort and/or create memories: memory is strongly influenced by our views, attitudes and beliefs at the time of recall. Maybe unconscious transference: she transferred what she felt from another rcmp officer onto jack ramsay: elizabeth loftus" studies them home. E. g. , a child is asked to recall being lost in a mall and then they send. A confabulated memory is as real to you as a real memory: these children have never been lost in a mall, but after awhile, they started to believe that they were once lost in a mall. In the first condition, subjects (cid:498)remember(cid:499) the cars were going much. How fast were the cars going when they hit each other? faster than they do subjects in the second condition. All the experimenter had to do was say smash and people think they implanted memories.
