PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Self-Reference, Childhood Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory

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15 Feb 2012
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In 1992, an el cargo plan lost power and crashed into a building killing 43 people in amsterdam. In a follow up study they surveyed another 93 people about the crash and if they saw the (nonexistent) film and going into more depth about the questions. 2/3 of these participants remembered seeing the film and most of them confidently discussed details of the crash. Brewer and treyens: participants were asked to wait briefly in the experimenter s office prior to the procedures start. After 35 seconds they were taken out of this office and told that they were actually going to be testing their memory and what was in the office. B. c they were in an office, they said they saw a chair and desk - their recall was often in line w/ their expectations and not w/ reality. H. w they also said they saw books on the shelveswhen actually there were none.

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