PSY328H5 Midterm: PSY328 usefulness of eyewitness testimony (lecture 2)
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You are not expecting a crime to happen right in front of you and not even asked about the event right away. People with different perspectives going to see situation differently: we fill in information with the stuff that we think makes sense. Because we"ve had time to practice it over and over again if we hear something new that doesn"t go along with previous knowledge then we tend to ignore it old information has more influence than new. Once you have enough time to format it in your memoryyou are going to stick to your guns even with evidence that shows you the opposite. Tend to remember facts that are consistent with our theories (what we thought was correct) and forget facts that aren"t belief perseverance. Rules of thumb that are going to substitute simpler questions for more complex questions when we are uncertain. Typically work on an intuitive level (gut feeling)