PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eyewitness Identification, Short-Term Memory, Free Recall

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

Document Summary

Perception/attention stage -> encoding stage -> short term memory -> long-term -> retrieval stage. Recall memory: reporting details of a previously witnessed event or person. Recognition memory: determining whether a previous person/item is the same as what is being viewed. How to study witness issues: police report archival data examine witnesses in naturalistic environments: follow police to crime scenes, interview witnesses laboratory simulations: most common paradigm used to study eye witness issues. Unknowing participant is shown a video without knowing they will be questioned about it. Canada"s witness protection program box 5. 1: witness protection program by rcmp to protect those that give info to rcmp. Estimator variables: factors present at the time of the crime and can"t be changes ex: age of witness, lighting, System variables: can be manipulated to increase or decrease eyewitness accuracy ex: type of procedure used by cops, type of lineup procedure, etc