SOP-3004 Study Guide - Embezzlement, Afrocentrism, Yield Sign

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10 Apr 2014
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Eyewitness testimony: vivid personal stories are persuasive, eye witness testimony is influential, even when weak. 18% (cid:222) with one eyewitness over 70% Discredited eyewitness still 68: problems with eyewitness testimony. Many people are not very good at it. They aren"t calm situations where you can sit back and memorize what"s going on and what the people look like. Our expectations and pervious experiences influence our perceptions (cid:222) we interpret ambiguous information based on what we expect to see. Loftus showed p"s slides of an auto accident. Half showed car at a stop sign, half at a yield sign; p"s asked did another car pass the datsun while it was stopped at the stop(yield) sign? . Some were asked about the wrong thing; some who saw the stop sign were asked about the yield sign and vice versa (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222)

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