PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homicide, Nextdoor, German Shepherd
24 Feb 2014
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Hint: the first time professor gave out a timmy card: weeks 1-5 (lecture 1-10, includes guest lectures, *will not cover p. 135-137 (repressed memories that will get moved to child victims section) Last class for midterm stuff (know everything including today) Picture of people exonerated due to dna evidence- us has had 249. Convicted of either sexual assault or homicide. Project innocent two law professors founded it in 1992. Found that eyewitness testimony is probably a key factor in wrongful convictions: but there are other factors too- bad informants, false confessions, etc, in a real event (ex. Memories can be reconstructed- causes problems for police. Could hear another witness saying something, for instance: memory is not like a videotape as you play it back, you add information and reconstruct memory. Two types of memory: recall: reporting what you saw (free narrative, recognition: recognizing from what you"re shown (lineup) Some people with recognition memory do source misattribution.
