PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Offender Profiling, Eyewitness Identification, Victimology
22 Sep 2016
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Only 1/85 participants could draw the essential elements of the apple logo, and less than half of participants recognized the logo from an array of 8 possibilities. Encoding: to see" something, we must pay attention to it. Exposure duration: shapiro & penrod (1986) found that shorter exposure durations lead to lower correct identification, and higher false identification rates. Arousal level: moderate levels of arousal are best. Distraction: reduces attention to information: inattentional blindness: not paying attention to something (i. e. gorilla, increased # of perpetrators, weapon focus) Distinctiveness: improves recall, but distinctive flashbulb" memories not as accurate as once believed. They are better for events of high personal relevance: ulric neisser (1986): later accounts of challenger shuttle explosion by first-year university students did not match original report. Storage and retrieval: events are an interpretation of what happened rather than what was seen. Labeling: drawing influenced by label given to object.
