PSYC 109W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hindsight Bias, Yield Sign, Suggestibility
30 Jun 2019
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Definition: the tendency for people to suggest they could have predicted an outcome after the event has occurred. 3. five factors effect perception: familiarity stress duration condition perceptual abilities. Passage of time (the forgetting curve, performance/time: enhancing memory (1975) Loftus stop sign 10 stop sign, Pass by pure green: introducing false objects into memory (1978) 30 pic stop sign yield sign: paradigm. 6. retrieval: question-wording can have substantial influence on reported memory. Did u see15% / the broken7% headlight? (there was none!) How fast were the cars going when they smashed40. 8/collided39. 3/bumped 38. 1/hit34. 0 each other? : confidence, predictors of accuracy. Memory is not static, but reconstructive and malleable. People do not know whether they are accurate or not. Implications for interviewing and questioning (e. g. , leading questions) Other factors: age, type of offence, prior convictions, access to legal advice. 9. interrogation techniques (how to get information from someone) Minimization definition: reduce the perceived seriousness of the offence. Normalizing the behavior & blame the victim, externalization.
