PSYC 305L Lecture 28: Chapter 8 Eye Witness Error
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The cost of memory errors, eyewitness errors a. i. Sometimes people are convicted due to dishonesty informants a. i. 1. The most common concern is with eyewitness errors. This accord for at least three quarters of false a. i. 1. a: planting false memories convictions a. i. Are there limits on the misinformation effect? a. i. 1. The way you phrase something can impact on how a person"s perception will go, it can make them baised a. i. 2. In a car crash if you ask how fast the cars are going when they crashed into each other vs how fast the cars going when they hit each other a. i. 2. a. i. a. i. 2. a. ii. a. i. 2. a. iii. Those who got hit estimated the speed to have been 34 miles per hour. Those who said got smashed estimated 41 miles per hour. Examples such as these suggests that it may actually be really easy to manipulate someone"s experience or memory over an event a. ii. 1.
