PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Eyewitness Testimony, Fundamental Attribution Error, Representativeness Heuristic
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Top-down processes, efficiency gains, accuracy costs* the power of suggestion: people can fabricate memories of events which have not occurred, following leading questions/suggestions. Class examples: getting lost in a shopping mall, disneyland bugs bunny sighting 1/3 people recalled, a man remembering the liberation of holland. Eyewitness testimony highly questionable reliability: can be influenced by, race of witnesses + alleged criminal, leading questions, misleading post-event info. Various scenarios subjects could also be lead to remember broken glass (where none), stop signs, other details, etc. Therefore, wording of questions can alter memories. Children"s testimony: child abuse cases memories can be biased very easily; thus, people can be wrongly convicted for crime/unjustly not convicted children particularly suggestible, tend to confabulate memories: suggestibility influenced: age (very young = most suggestible) More ways our brains deceive us as you activate one construct, related constructs also activated: processes info more efficiently, but less accurately. Because i"m in a rush? more likely.
