PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Connectionism, Speaker Types, Amygdala
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The manufacture of memory: source misattribution: the inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from info you learned about the event elsewhere. The conditions of confabulation: confabulation: confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened. You"ve thought, heard, or told others about the imagined event many times. The image of the event contains lots of details that make it feel real: the event is easy to imagine. The eyewitness on trial: eyewitnesses are especially likely to make mistaken id"s when suspect"s ethnicity differs from their own, leading questions affect the memories of the individual under questioning. Children"s testimony: power of suggestion can affect anyone, especially children, leading questions: using hypotheticals with children (this suggests a scenario to children; this simple suggestion very quickly becomes reality to them)
