Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: K. Mc Keown

Document Summary

She studies false memories psychology has determined that this isnt true. Leading researching in the field of eyewitness memory: when you feed people some form of false information you can change their memory, misinformation effect, the case of steve titus. The role of memory: eyewitness testimony relies on, encoding, storing, and retrieving information. Storing memories requires several steps including: attention, encoding, short-term memory, long-term memory, not all memories pass successfully through these stages and problems may occur at each stage, 5 stages of memory. Incorrect responders were actually more confident than those who said "no: princess diana. Types of eyewitness memory: 2 types of memory retrieval that eyewitnesses perform, recall memory, reporting details of a previously witnessed event/person, recognition memory, determining whether what is currently being viewed/heard is the same as the previously witnessed item/person. Studying eyewitness issues: eyewitness issues can be studied using a variety of methods, archival data, naturalistic observation, laboratory simulations.