PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Eyewitness Testimony, Flashbulb Memory, Hindsight Bias
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Psych 100 lecture 23 eyewitness testimony. Has been implicated in other areas of memory distortion. The more people repeat these memories, the more certain they become, even if they are distorted. Wells presented 253 people with a lineup of suspects related to a video they saw of a terrorist bombing. All selected a suspect, although the actual suspect was not listed. Certainty was very high for those told that they picked correctly. A woman took 30 minutes to select a suspect from this lineup but later reported she was. The witness was told that the suspect was a black male, but the lineup included only one. Use double-blind procedure for lineups: neither the person nor the interviewer know if the actual suspect is included or who he/she is. Freud argued that the ego protects itself by keeping traumatic memories out of consciousness.
