PSYC 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm: Hypnosis

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In mock captivity study with soldiers, correct identifications was significantly higher for participants in the low stress condition: many more false positives in high stress condition, high stress impairs memory and consequently reduces the rate of correct identifications, weapon focus effect if eyewitnesses see a perpetrator holding a gun or a knife, their ability to recognize the assailant is impaired, focus attention on the weapon, evidence supporting both arousal/threat (idea of danger associated with weapon) and the unusual item hypotheses, unusual item hypothesis is another explanation for the weapon focus effect, focus on weapon because it is unusual, out of place. Pre existing expectations: what we expect to see influences what we actually see and how we remember what we see, scripts widely held beliefs about sequences of actions that typically occur in particular situations, script for first day of university class: sit at desk, hands out syllabus, appear to have pre existing scripts for many common situations.

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