PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elizabeth Loftus, Sleep Paralysis, Recovered-Memory Therapy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

The term that loftus used in last week"s lecture is reconstruction . The more often we remember something, the stronger the memory trace will be but more often when we recall it there is an increase of likelihood that we will reconstruct it with every recall. Old saying: the more times we have something that is repeated to us that is false, the more likely it will start to sound true as it is repeated over and over again. Elizabeth loftus (guest lecturer from video last week) If headshots were all of a different race, the person identifying would be less accurate than if all the headshots were of their own race. There is greater activation in the fusiform face area (ffa) when looking at faces of people of their own race. Photo bias: testimony can be biased by seeing photos of people in the intervening of the actual events and looking at photos of people of the event.