Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Response Bias, Explicit Memory, Decay Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: L. Fazakas-Dehoog

Document Summary

Remember information accurately but confuse the source of the information. Estimate how fast the cars were going - asked 2 groups. People who heard this believed the cars were inevitably going faster. People accepts information as being apart of the experience but it wasn"t. Situation where people were coming forward with past sexual relations. But psychologists were implanting these memories in the brain. When told one was incorrect, picked one of the real memories. 7 out of 24 remembered the false event. 19 out of 24 figured out which was false. Some people are more susceptible to misinformation than others. People high at risk for misinformation acceptance have. Recalling or recognizing the meaning or content of what was experienced. Ask people to remember what they were doing when they first heard about the challenger shuttle explosion. Remembering to perform an activity in the future. Event based task (pick up milk) or time based task (take medication at a certain time)