PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Cortisol, Amygdala, Suggestibility

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Brian Siefke

Document Summary

Absentmindedness- a lapse in attention results in memory failure: happens most often when attention is divided between two or more items or activities (ex. Driving plus cell phone conversation: less activity in lower left frontal lobe during divided attention and as activities become more automatic, prospective memory- remembering to do things in the future (ex. Occurs especially frequently with our names: name blocking is often associated with damage to the left temporal lobe on the surface of the cortex. Misattribution- assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source: some of the primary causes of eyewitness misidentifications, source memory- recall of when, where, and how info was required c. Higher activation of previously seen or heard items in their visual and auditory cortices; respectively: dangerous misattributions a. i. a. ii. Kirk bloodsworth spent 9 years in prison as a result of a misidentification; was later exonerated on dna evidence. Lineup procedures have changed somewhat due to research in this area.