PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 65: Random Assignment
10 Aug 2018
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Asked college students to predict how another student would react in various situations. Some participants made predictions about fellow student whom they had just met & interviewed. Others made predictions about roommates whom they knew very well. In both cases, participants reported confidence in each prediction. Accuracy was determined by responses of ppl themselves. Tested accuracy of flashbulb memories by asking students to write down their memory of how they had heard the news about either. 9/11 terrorist attacks or about an everyday event that occurred to them during the same time frame. Recordings were made on september 12, 2001. Participants were asked again, either 1, 6, or 32 weeks later, to recall their memories. about attacks did not decline over time. But participants" confidence in accuracy of memory of learning memories than they should"ve been. They were much more certain about accuracy of flashbulb.
