PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyewitness Identification, Hindsight Bias, Belief Perseverance

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Stuart Kamenetsky

Document Summary

Limitations: sensory input is influenced by expectation, our brains do not objectively record data, memory is subjective interpretations, old information has more influence than new, belief perseverance. Heuristics and biases: heuristics are short-cuts, cognitive biases are mental errors. 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. Schooler (1986) psychologists can"t tell the difference between real and implanted memories. Schooler (1986: one of the most frequently studied sources of memory distortion involves the consequences of encountering misinformation after witnessing an event, there are a variety of issues regarding the impact of misinformation. What are the differences between real and suggested between real and suggested: comparisons between descriptions reveal memory? memory? a variety of subtle differences. actual memories tend to include more sensory details (schooler, gerhard, & loftus, 1986; schooler, Clark, & loftus, 1988) suggested memories include greater references to cognitive processes (johnson &