PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elizabeth Loftus, Change Blindness, Scantron Corporation
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Psy372 exam: april 11, 2014, 9-11am, dv2072, same format as midterm, 10 extra multiple choice, pencil for scantron & pen for sa, textbook and material after midterm. Some things were not covered in lecture, but may overlap with textbook, so you still need to know the material in the textbook. Most influential women psychologist in the 20th century. Leading questions: changing verbal usage in the questions, wording had strong impact in speed estimate. Real-life settings: putting students through simulated crime scenes, students get paid for it. Eye witness testimony: can"t control timing of the crime, criminals don"t drag things on, it happens really fast. Video: change blindness, we lose large changes in our environment and we don"t even notice, 75% doesn"t even realize, maybe the people who noticed were paying attention to something of the person. How well do you pay attention: just for laughs gag, similar scenario of change blindness, 50% didn"t notice it.
